African American history does not provide a great vantage point on the history of human flourishing. Instead, it is one of the most depressing subfields in American history—second perhaps only to ...

Over the past year, a spirit of iconoclasm has swept across the United States. Dozens of statues have been removed or toppled by people outraged by the supposed moral failures of the men depicted in ...

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War might not be the locomotive of history, but it drives the writing of the world’s most-published historian. Jeremy Black’s extraordinary body of work regularly returns to themes in military history ...

After finishing Ben Shattuck’s masterful new book of short stories, “The History of Sound” I did something I hadn’t done for more than two decades, I started reading it over again from the beginning.

This article is part of The Week's 20th anniversary section, looking back at how the world has changed since our first issue was published in April 2001. It originally appeared in the April 16, 2021 ...