In Aphrodite’s Island, this week’s Times Higher Education Book of the Week, Anne Salmond chronicles the first European voyages to Tahiti, and the ways in which European and Tahitian mythologies intertwined during …
Read More >When Jeffrey Race boarded a ship to Vietnam in 1965, he was not planning to write the ultimate resource on the Vietnamese conflict. As he notes in a recent article in Small …
Read More >In this post, Stein Tønnesson, author of Vietnam 1946: How the War Began, recalls a debate he had with a colleague about events leading up to war between France and Vietnam, and …
Read More >In this post, W. Joseph Campbell, author of Getting It Wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism, debunks the “Cronkite Moment”, an anecdote widely repeated as an example of …
Read More >“We need to begin at the beginning. We need to begin at our beginnings”, writes Adam Frank in a recent post on the NPR.org blog 13.7: Cosmos and Culture, to which he …
Read More >Stein Tønnesson wrote to us from Oslo about launching his book, Vietnam 1946: How the War Began, at a press conference in Hanoi. ____________________________________________________ When Vietnam 1946: How the War Began was …
Read More >Mayer Kirshenblatt, the artist whose paintings opened a window onto Jewish life in Poland before the Holocaust, died November 20, 2009 at age 93. Kirshenblatt started painting at age 73 at the …
Read More >Jack O’Dell has spent nearly his entire life working and writing for social justice. In Climbin’ Jacob’s Ladder: The Black Freedom Movement Writings of Jack O’Dell, editor Nikhil Pal Singh presents a …
Read More >Since the earthquake in Haiti there has been a torrent of international aid, a growing movement to cancel Haiti’s foreign debts and turn emergency loans into grants, and talk of how Haiti …
Read More >Chinese American Heroes and AsianWeek have honored Jean Pfaelzer for her book Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans, which revealed the pogroms and ethnic cleansing that targeted Chinese Americans in …
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