History

Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future, by Jason Stanley

“The professors are the enemy.” — J.D. Vance

Jan 15 • Amelia Zimmerman

My Favourite Book of 2025: On Freedom, by Timothy Snyder

This beautiful, intimate book about what freedom really means is the book we all need as the term becomes increasingly abused by the far Right.

Jan 13 • Amelia Zimmerman

A Place of Greater Safety, by Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel’s epic doorstopper brings the French Revolution to life — in intimate, violent, and inescapably human detail.

Jan 10 • Amelia Zimmerman

Did we make money, or did money make us?

As books on money go, none are as fun as David McWilliams’ ‘Money’.

Nov 4, 2024 • Amelia Zimmerman

What if Africa told its own history?

Zeinab Badawi's African History of Africa did not quite live up to its admirable and long overdue ambition.

Aug 1, 2024 • Amelia Zimmerman

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