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The Return of Martin Guerre, Reviewed by Cole Bricker
In the 1540s in Languedoc, France, a rich peasant named Martin Guerre left his wife, child and property and was not heard from for eight years. Upon returning, Guerre lived in relative marital bliss...
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The Inventor and the Tycoon, Reviewed by Alexander Smith
In The Inventor and the Tycoon, Edward Ball adopts a microhistorical approach to tell the stories of two profoundly different men – Leland Stanford, a cantankerous, incredibly wealthy railroad...
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At the Dark End of the Street: Illuminating But Overly Reductive, Reviewed by...
For the most part, Danielle McGuire presents a powerful and coherent narrative – that black women’s testimony against sexual violence emerged as an important method of direct action, and through...
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Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting, Reviewed by Nusra Khan
In Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity Vijay Prashad offers a cursory history of Asian and African cultures, within the framework of polyculturalism,...
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The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary,...
How often do you use a dictionary? If you’re like me you may have just experienced a split-second long mental image of typing out the first few letters of dictionary.com. Maybe you’re remembering that...
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Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, Reviewed by Aaron Noronha
To call Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States a work of revisionist history is, in some respects, a massive understatement. Zinn’s 1980 bestseller not only attempts to portray American...
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Eating with the Enemy: How I Waged Peace With North Korea From My BBQ Shack...
Academics often question the validity of popular histories since many of the author’s do not have PhD’s attached to their names or have an Ivy League alma mater. While those scholars who have...
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The Iron Lady, Film Review by Yuan Yi Zhu
Phyllida Lloyd’s The Iron Lady, her 2011 biopic of Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s Prime Minister between 1979 and 1992, has been much commented upon since its release. Much has been said about the...
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Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege 1942-1943, Reviewed by Tom Bradshaw
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege is a narrative account of the Battle of Stalingrad in the Second World War. This book would transform the reputation of Anthony Beevor, a former British Army officer, and...
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Freedom in Exile, Reviewed by Arjun Choudry
In Freedom in Exile, the Dalai Lama dispels much of the negative propaganda disseminated against him in an attempt “to counter Chinese claims and misinformation spread about Tibet’s history, culture...
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Glory, Film Review by Alex Langer
The film Glory covers the creation and actions of the Massachusetts 54th Infantry Regiment of the United States Army, the first regiment of black soldiers in the American military, during the Civil...
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Guns, Germs and Steel, Reviewed by Kimberley Evans
Thesis Statement In this review, I will argue that although Jared Diamond’s “Guns, Germs, and Steel”[1] attempts to answer many important questions that the study of history aims towards – namely...
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The Inconvenient Indian, Reviewed by Ryan Mitton
Thomas King’s book, The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native Peoples in North America, is a recent popular work that seeks to provide an account of the history of native peoples in North...
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Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern...
In November 1914 Thomas Edward Lawrence was chosen to join a new military intelligence unit in Cairo at the headquarters of the British war effort in the Near East. Over the course of the next four...
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Agora, Film Review by Gaby Soto Grustilina
Agora features the story of Hypatia, a pagan philosopher murdered in 5th century Alexandria by a sect of fanatical Christian monks called the Parabalani. Her early life is not very well known, though...
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Reviewed by Alexandra Triantafillopoulos
“It’s true…whenever we read books about science, it’s always HeLa this and HeLa that. Some people know those are initials of a person, but they don’t know who that person is. That’s important...
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Sex with the Queen, Reviewed by Benjamin Wong
“In royal courts bristling with testosterone—swashbuckling generals, polished courtiers, and virile cardinals—how did repressed regal ladies find happiness?” Well, according to New York Times...
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The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia’s Founding, Reviewed by Joe Brydon
Class in The Fatal Shore is one of Hughes’ central concepts and he argues for a more nuanced understanding of class dynamics than any offered by Marx or Engels. Hughes teases...
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The Lost Symbol, Reviewed by Praniet Chopra
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown[1] narrates the story of Professor Robert Langdon, a Harvard symbologist, who is deceptively invited to Washington by a psychopathic murderer on a quest to find the...
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The Sleepwalkers, Reviewed by Josh Doyle – Raso
The history of the genesis of the First World War has been addressed by countless historians due to its complex nature. Historians point to structural conditions, the attitudes of each state’s...
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