It’s time to celebrate Black History Month, and even though the Super Bowl is still to come this weekend, already baseball fans are gearing up for Opening Day on March 31. Thinking back to Jackie Robinson’s entrance into the MLB with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, the league has come
With so much political activity and talk of revolution in Egypt, Tunisia, and the greater Middle East, perhaps it is time for us to revisit the darker side of resolutions and how regimes can affect the greater course of human history with decisive action. Indeed, when the object of “solving”
Entertainment Weekly’s 2011 preview included a blurb about the forthcoming, debut novel, A Discovery of Witches, by Deborah Harkness, with a review by Karen Valby out shortly after. When she published The Jewel House with YUP, a scientific history of Elizabethan London, The New Yorker wrote: “Harkness’s research is revelatory
Michael Takiff sat down with Chris Matthews last week for MSNBC’s Hardball to discuss the impact of Clinton’s legacy in the US and beyond. He talks at length about the Clintons’ marriage, the “Clinton-Obama Alliance” and the political future ahead, notably Hillary’s propsects for 2016. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640 Visit msnbc.com for breaking
An op-ed piece was posted to the New York Times’s “Opinionator” by Carla L. Peterson, whose book, Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City, will be published next month. As part of the Times’s Disunion series, following the Civil War as it unfolded as
Ivan Lett For many Britons, there is a certain long-standing fascination with Spain. In the early colonial and modern periods, the great Spanish empire was a Catholic rival to newly-Protestant English prowess on the seas, culminating in the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. So quickly after its rise
January is a long month. The holiday cheer begins to wear off, back to work and school; and for those of us in the cold: banks of dirtying snow and “wintry mixes,” sputtering heaters, and searing winds. At this time, the bright year ahead simultaneously seems most promising, and most
In light of the recent bombing in Alexandria, Egyptian banker and writer, Tarek Osman, has been interviewed by the London Times and CNN for his take on the current political situation. Today we have published Egypt on the Brink: From Nasser to Mubarak, in which Osman describes the huge changes
Ivan Lett It is now 65 years to the day that the United Nations held its first General Assembly in London. In the aftermath of World War II, the Allies met repeatedly to establish the goals of the organization, notably its commitment to international peace and cooperation. Fifty-one nations were
The new, Winter 2011 issue of the American Scholar has a selection of entries from our forthcoming book Alfred Kazin’s Journals, edited by Richard M. Cook. As a prominent public intellectual, Kazin’s circle of influence in postwar America was formidable. The letters excerpted in the American Scholar include Kazin’s thoughts