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In late 1999, the United States Army found itself confronted with a severe recruiting shortfall. Despite the Army’s best efforts, it fell just over 6,000 recruits shy of its goal, setting off alarm bells within the organization. Within the upper ranks of the Army, a ‘doom and gloom’ PowerPoint presentation began circulating, one that laid […]
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In spring 1533, a ninety-year-old widow named Avice Willes compiled a petition setting out various grievances she held against her neighbours. Owing to her ‘debilitation, weakness, and innocency’, she lamented, certain young men in her neighbourhood of Hothfield, Kent, had tricked her into selling a mansion and barn for much less than their true value. […]
Read MoreWhen Angela Davis called attention to the fascist tendencies in the United States that threatened American democracy during a 2016 interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now, some in the mainstream media dismissed her comments as divisive rhetoric or hyperbole. Far from being outrageous or out of stride with the prevailing views of Black activists, […]
Read MoreLiterate white men of European descent were the most common readers in the past. At least that seems to be the case if we look at the history of books and reading. Indeed, these men wrote, published, and read plenty of books, as a large body of scholarship has shown for Europe – the cradle […]
Read MoreThe “age of revolutions” was a global era. Around the world between the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, new states and empires supplanted old regimes. The implications of those large-scale political changes were evident not just across the Atlantic, but also around interregional realms like the Indian Ocean. But even as historians have of […]
Read MoreIn the late nineteenth century, many attributed the longevity of the famous French chemist Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786-1889) – 103 years old! – to his abiding frugality. Some doctors even appropriated Chevreul’s case to convince their fellow citizens to eat less, to change their nutritional habits. Others reacted bitterly against this thesis. In the time of […]
Read MoreWhen the submersible Titan imploded on its descent to the wreckage of the Titanic this past June, its five victims were widely eulogized as explorers. They were termed “true explorers” by OceanGate, the company that sponsored the voyage. OceanGate’s founder, Stockton Rush, who piloted the Titan that day, saw himself as an explorer and […]
Read MoreIn February 1931, two years before he became chancellor, Adolf Hitler checked in to Berlin’s Hotel Kaiserhof and made it his headquarters in the capital. The building soon swarmed with Nazis, who transformed the clientele overnight. Jewish custom evaporated. Business suffered. A year and a half later, with revenues in freefall, the hotel’s parent company […]
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