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
H.W. Brands on Thomas Carlyle on the French Revolution
H. W. Brands on Ulysses S. Grant
I wrote about Ulysses Grant for two reasons: necessity and curiosity.
H. W. Brands reading from “American Colossus”
H. W. Brands on the Rise of American Capitalism
During the quarter millennium since American independence, two institutions and sets of values have come to characterize American society: democracy and capitalism.
Latin America’s Cold War by Hal Brands (2010)
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.
An Overlooked Success: How the Failed Annexation of Santo Domingo led to the Successful Prosecution of the Ku Klux Klan
The 19th century in American history is marked by rapid territorial expansion, from the Louisiana Purchase to the Mexican-American War. By 1850, the continental U.S. had taken a familiar shape. The Civil War interrupted this expansion as the nation grappled with the future of slavery and the role of the federal government. However, at the […]
15 Minutes History – Partisanship in the Revolutionary Era
Political partisanship is not only a hallmark of US democracy today. There is also a long history of dysfunction and division as old as America. H.W. Brands’s new book, Founding Partisans, is a revelatory history of the Revolutionary era’s stormy politics, which includes a look at the nation’s earliest political parties — those of Hamilton and […]
IHS Book Roundtable: The Moderate Bolshevik: Mikhail Tomsky from the Factory to the Kremlin, 1880-1936
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. […]
Burying the Lede? The Iran Hostage Crisis “October Surprise” and Me
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 […]
Bridging the Gap over Uncharted Waters: An Interview with Kyle Balzer
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. […]