George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia is an interesting work.
Undergraduate Essay Contest Winner: Homage to Catalonia (1938)
Let the Enslaved Testify
For nearly 30 years, historians have debated about the use of former slave narratives as a “valid” historical source. Scholars question the authenticity of interviews collected in the 1930s, often by white Works Progress Administration (WPA) field workers.
Cynical Realism: Miller’s Crossing by Joel and Ethan Coen (1990)
The HBO series Boardwalk Empire may currently be winning laurels for its workmanlike depiction of Prohibition-era gangsters and corrupt politicos, but viewers interested in a more fully-realized work about the Golden Age of American organized crime would be wise to turn to the Coen Brother's 1990 masterpiece Miller's Crossing.
Voices of India’s Partition, Part I
My own family hails from Aligarh, a city about 90 miles southeast of New Delhi and, as Muslims, opted to move to Pakistan. I was aware of this as a child, but because I grew up outside Pakistan, it was not until I began my research and had enough comfort speaking Urdu that I persuaded some of my elderly relatives to tell me their stories of the time of independence and partition.