Looking Back (with Context): A Retrospective on 2021

Fighting, but not Beating, the System: Lydia Dean Pitcher’s Radium Girls

Back to the Source: Adrian Miller’s Black Smoke

Book Club: The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen by Linda Colley

Missing the Trees for the Forest: History’s Vikings

A Galaxy Not So Far Away: Star Wars and How Not to Write Democracy

Conceptually Confused: Justin Marozzi’s Islamic Empires

Memorialization or Mindfulness? Reflections on 2021’s 9/11 Media

Anatomy of Battle: Helm’s Deep