Mauricio Castro is Assistant Professor of History and Chair of Latin American Studies at Centre College. This interview is based on his new book, Only a Few Blocks to Cuba: Cold War Refugee Policy, the Cuban Diaspora, and the Transformation […]
Cold War
Ideas in progress: Jeremy Sabella on the theological legacies of the Cold War
What is the focus of your current book project? What are the big questions that you are investigating and the main stories that you hope to tell in this book? This book is tentatively titled, The Politics of Original Sin: […]
Revisiting the Cuban Missile Crisis
“What’s important,” Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev reflected in October 1962, “is not to cry for the dead or to avenge them, but to save those who might die if the conflict continues.” That so many didn’t die, then, was the result of Khrushchev’s, […]
The Author’s Corner with John C. Winters
John C. Winters is Assistant Professor History at the University of Southern Mississippi. This interview is based on his new book, “The Amazing Iroquois” and the Invention of the Empire State (Oxford University Press, 2023). JF: What led you to […]
The meaning of Putin’s invasion. A Cold War historian weighs-in.
Mary Elise Sarotte teaches history at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. Here is a taste of her piece at The New York Times: The Russian president has now definitively put an end to the post-Cold War […]
How Thanksgiving became a capitalist holiday
In Monday’s Evangelical Roundup (available twice a week to Current patrons at the Surface level), I included a piece by Wallbuilders president Tim Barton in which he claims that the seventeenth-century Pilgrims defeated socialism. Here is Barton: We often think […]