Category: History

September 12, 2013

Hollywood and Hitler Reviewed in The New Yorker

The debate continues. Writing for The New Yorker, David Denby weighs in on the competing interpretations of Hollywood’s complicity with Nazism advanced in two new books: Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939, by Thomas Doherty and The Collaboration Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler,...

August 26, 2013

The Art of Being Erich Fromm – A Review from The New York Review of Books

A review of The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love’s Prophet, by Lawrence J. Friedman, was published in the Summer Issue of The New York Review of Books. A link to the review is available by clicking here (you need a...

August 21, 2013

Interview with Whitney Strub, author of Perversion for Profit (now out in paper!)

With Perversion for Profit: The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right now available in paperback, we’re re-posting our earlier interview with the book’s author, Whitney Strub Question: Why “Perversion for Profit”? Won’t people think the book...

August 16, 2013

A Little Gay History — Protest and Rights

We conclude our week-long feature on A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity Across the World, by R. B. Parkinson, with a focus not on art and culture but politics. The images above and below are pins from the past...

August 15, 2013

Images from A Little Gay History

We continue our week-long feature on A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity Across the World, by R. B. Parkinson with some images from the book, which come from the collection at the British Museum. Working backwards in time, we...

August 14, 2013

Interview with R. B. Parkinson, author of A Little Gay History

The following is an interview with R. B. Parkinson, author of A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity Across the World. For more on the book, you can also read Parkinson’s blog post, Same-Sex Desire in the British Museum or...

August 13, 2013

R. B. Parkinson on Same-Sex Desire in the British Museum

The following post is by R. B. Parkinson, author of A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity Across the World: My own academic research concerns Ancient Egyptian poetry from around 1800 BCE and because some of these works deal with...

July 26, 2013

Frederick Cooper: How Global Do We Want Our Intellectual History to Be?

This week our featured book is Global Intellectual History, edited by Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori. Today, the final day of this week’s feature, we have an excerpt from Frederick Cooper’s chapter in Global Intellectual History: “How Global Do We...

July 25, 2013

Cemil Aydin: Globalizing the Intellectual History of the Idea of the "Muslim World"

This week our featured book is Global Intellectual History, edited by Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori. Today, we have an excerpt from Cemil Aydin’s chapter in Global Intellectual History: “Globalizing the Intellectual History of the Idea of the ‘Muslim World.’”...

July 24, 2013

Samuel Moyn: Global Intellectual Life Past and Present

This week our featured book is Global Intellectual History, edited by Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori. Today, we are cross-posting a short article by Samuel Moyn, originally published on Interdisciplines, which uses David Mitchell’s novel The Thousand Autumns of Jacob...

July 23, 2013

Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori: Approaches to Global Intellectual History

Read an excerpt from “Approaches to Global Intellectual History,” by Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori, the first chapter of GLOBAL INTELLECTUAL HISTORY, edited by Moyn and Sartori.

July 15, 2013

Thomas Doherty and the Debate over Hollywood and Hitler

“I’m always leery of history that allows the present to feel smugly superior to the past.”—Thomas Doherty Thomas Doherty, author of Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939 has recently been involved in a well-covered and somewhat contentious scholarly debate. As reported in...