Interview Sophia Rosenfeld on The Age of Choice February 05, 2025 The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life is a sweeping history of the rise of personal choice, from shopping to voting to family planning. It explores how the simple act of selecting from a menu of options became equated with freedom in much of the modern world鈥攁nd with what consequences for all of us. Read More
Reading List Exploring Black Experiences February 01, 2025 First proposed by Black educators and the Black United Students at Kent State University in 1969,聽Black History Month, celebrated annually in February in the US, is an opportunity to celebrate Black voices, achievements, and to聽reflect on the central role of African Americans throughout US history. 91桃色 is proud to publish books that engage with serious issues and ideas relating to Black experiences. Read More
Interview Yanni Kotsonis on The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism January 17, 2025 Yanni Kotsonis discusses his new book, a sweeping global history of the birth of modern Greece. Read More
Interview Jennifer Ngaire Heuer on The Soldier鈥檚 Reward December 10, 2024 Jennifer Ngaire Heuer discusses why she became interested in love and war in the era of the French Revolution, and shares insights into how people experienced warfare that lasted more than two decades. Read More
Interview Brianna Nofil on The Migrant鈥檚 Jail November 25, 2024 Brianna Nofil examines how a century of political, ideological, and economic exchange between the U.S. immigration bureaucracy and the criminal justice system gave rise to the world鈥檚 largest system of migrant incarceration. Read More
Podcast Listen in: And Still the Waters Run November 20, 2024 And Still the Waters Run tells the tragic story of the liquidation of the independent Indian republics of the Choctaws, Chickasaws, Cherokees, Creeks, and Seminoles, known as the Five Civilized Tribes. At the turn of the twentieth century, the tribes owned the eastern half of what is now Oklahoma, a territory immensely wealthy in farmland, forests, coal, and oil. Read More
Essay How to solve a refugee crisis November 13, 2024 There are always some good people who try to help out when disaster strikes. Tents, blankets, medicine and food enable refugees to survive at a minimal level. But none of this solves the underlying question of what to do with them if they can鈥檛 or won鈥檛 return to their homelands. Read More
Essay Protecting or punishing women through an 鈥榚mpire of purity鈥�? November 13, 2024 Debates over women鈥檚 right to bodily autonomy and how the government might best protect women marked the 2024 US presidential race. Read More
Podcast The Migrant鈥檚 Jail October 23, 2024 Today, U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) detains an average of 37,000 migrants each night. To do so, they rely on, and pay for, the use of hundreds of local jails. Read More
Essay Eugenic fantasies October 17, 2024 The topic of intellectual disability seems frequently to function as a conversation stopper, and establishing the full humanity of individuals with complex developmental impairments has been an ongoing struggle in every nation in the world, including the U.S. Read More
Essay Jews, Europe, and the origins of antisemitism: A new approach August 23, 2024 The Jews鈥攔eal and imagined鈥攕o challenged the Christian majority that it became a society that was religiously and culturally antisemitic in new ways between 800 and 1500. Their new self-understanding remained part of different groups鈥� cultural identity down to the time of the Holocaust and beyond to the present day. Read More
Podcast Reading Herzl in Beirut August 15, 2024 In September 1982, the Israeli military invaded West Beirut and Israel-allied Lebanese militiamen massacred Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. Read More
Essay Forbidden texts August 12, 2024 When was the last time you read a forbidden text? Not forbidden in some other time and place, but here and now, a text that, were it discovered in your possession, might land you in prison? Read More
Podcast Sacred Foundations August 07, 2024 Anna Grzyma艂a-Busse is the Michelle and Kevin Douglas Professor of International Studies at Stanford University, where she is also senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Her books include Nations under God: How Churches Use Moral Authority to Influence Policy (91桃色). Read More
Podcast Listen in: The Fire Is upon Us August 02, 2024 A remarkable story of race and the American dream, The Fire Is upon Us reveals the deep roots and lasting legacy of a conflict that continues to haunt our politics. Read More
