Tag Archives: History
Israel-Palestine: A Binary Fallacy
by Sarah Glidden, author of How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less (Vertigo, 2011) When I used to think about growing as a person, I visualized my life as a sort of graph: a steadily climbing, sometimes dipping line … Continue reading
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Teaching the Cold War to a Generation Born After
by Stephen Kotkin, author of Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment (Modern Library, 2010) I started teaching at Princeton University in September 1989—and two months into my first course the Berlin Wall fell. The ink on my … Continue reading
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Tracy Kidder on Haiti
Tracy Kidder, author of such bestselling books as the college common reading classic Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World and the new, critically-lauded Strength in What Remains, has penned an interesting … Continue reading
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Why You’re Wrong About the Crusades
by Lars Brownworth, author of Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization (Crown, 2009). There are few words as controversial—or as misunderstood—as ‘crusade’. Those who doubt that need only remember nine years ago when President George … Continue reading
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