What makes the French revolution come alive for students today? H. W. Brands tells us about teaching Carlyle's 1837 account on the NPR book blog, here.
Posted Tuesday, October 16, 2012
The past is never dead. It's not even past
What makes the French revolution come alive for students today? H. W. Brands tells us about teaching Carlyle's 1837 account on the NPR book blog, here.
Posted Tuesday, October 16, 2012
In this new book, covering the entire period of the Cold War in Latin America, Hal Brands restores agency and initiative to Latin American actors, in the process demolishing many of the platitudes that have governed much of the U.S.foreign policy literature.image Based on prodigious research in a dizzying array of U.S., Latin American, and even East German archives, Brands’s work advances a trenchant interpretation that cannot be ignored.
The Moderate Bolshevik: Mikhail Tomsky from The Factory to The Kremlin, 1880-1936Brill Publishing (Hard Cover): 2022; and Haymarket Books (Paperback): May 2023by Charters Wynn This first English-language biography of Mikhail Tomsky reveals his central role in all the key developments in early Soviet history, including the stormy debates over the role of unions in the self-proclaimed workers’ state. […]
Introduction by John Gleb In February 1979, a popular revolution in Iran overthrew the authoritarian government of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, a key ally of the United States. Ten months later, on November 4th, 1979, Iranian college students demonstrating against U. S. support for the Shah seized control of the U. S. embassy compound in […]
From the editors: Through our “Uncharted Waters” article series, Not Even Past has been exploring the history of U. S. international relations, examining understudied historical episodes in an accessible, engaging manner. Uncharted Waters taps into the wealth of knowledge produced by scholars affiliated with the University of Texas at Austin’s Clements Center for National Security. […]
From the Editors: This article first appeared A User’s Guide to History. It is reprinted here with the kind permission of the author. In Herman Melville’s day, businesses in cities like New York employed small armies of scriveners, as professional copyists were called. They had to write legibly, uniformly and swiftly. A person who could […]
Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution(Doubleday, 2021) From best-selling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands comes a gripping, page-turning narrative of the American Revolution that shows it to be more than a fight against the British: it was also a violent battle among neighbors forced to choose sides, […]
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