Perhaps the most important histiographic innovation of the twentieth century was the application of the historical method to wider and more expansive areas of t

WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEI

Reflects upon the discipline of history, claiming that the writing and teaching of history in higher education is in decline, and explores ways in which the fut

A collection of long essays centered on American places where the past is erupting into the present in unexpected ways.

Long at the margins of global affairs and at the edge of our mental map of the world, the Arctic has found its way to the center of the issues which will challe