Jonathan Singerton is Lecturer of Global and Comparative Histories of Central Europe at the University of Innsbruck. This interview is based on his new book, The American Revolution and the Habsburg Monarchy (University of Virginia Press, 2022). JF: What led...
European history
More books to help us understand the Russia-Ukraine war
Harvard University Press offers seven: Stanislav Aseyev, In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas Volodymyr Rafeyenko, Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love Serhii Plokhy, The Frontline: Essays on Ukraineās Past and Present Yuri Kostenko, Ukraineās Nuclear Disarmament: A History Karel C....
The Author’s Corner with Stefano Villani
Stefano Villani is Professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Maryland. This interview is based on his new book, Making Italy Anglican: Why the Book of Common Prayer Was Translated into Italian (Oxford University Press, 2022). JF:...
The Author’s Corner with Niels Eichhorn
Niels Eichhorn is Assistant Professor of History at Middle Georgia State University. This interview is based on his new book, Liberty and Slavery: European Separatists, Southern Secession, and the American Civil War (LSU Press, 2019). JF: What led you to...
Stop Reading in Bed!
Unless, of course, you want to burn to death or be perceived as a self-interested threat to society. Check out Nika Mavrody‘s piece atĀ The AtlanticĀ on reading in bed in early modern Europe. Here is a taste: As sleep transformed from...
Angela Merkel and the Future of Christianity In Europe
I recently asked historian Benjamin Brandenburg to take some of his recent tweets on Brexit and Christianity and write them up for The Way of Improvement Leads Home. Ā I am glad he agreed to do so. Ā Ā Brandenburg is an...
A Changing Europe, 1000AD to the Present
Very cool, although it would be even cooler if it had the date running as the map changed.http://www.liveleak.com/ll_embed?f=88648d830b5c