Review: The Crown and Decolonization
It is important to recognize The Crown is not about decolonization directly; it is fundamentally a drama about internal palace tensions and the Queen’s relationship with her people and government.
Category: Media and Reviews
Lost in the Flood: Young Earth Creationism from George McCready Price to Ken Ham
With Jerry Falwell, Jr. joining the White House task force on higher education policy, it is safe to say that the movement for young Earth creationism will not be dissipating any time soon.
The Unsettling of Appalachia: Identity, Activism, and Appalachian Consciousness in Conversation with S-Town
Appalachia is a region too politicized to romanticize. Though the region could definitely use some romance.
Piercings at Peace: Death and the Body in S-Town
S-Town, even as it relies on new forms of technology and media distribution to create a new genre of podcast storytelling, is part of a long and complex anthropological tradition.
Postcards from Bibb County, Alabama, or Some Thoughts on NPR’s S-Town Podcast
S-Town is much more than a mystery narrative; it is all at once a biography, soap opera, eulogy, and history.
Reading Blackhawk At Night and the Promise of the New Borderlands History: A Review Essay of Violence over the Land and The Comanche Empire
In revisiting approaches to Native American agency, suffering, aggression and violence, Ned Blackhawk’s Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West and Pekka Hämäläinen’s The Comanche Empire have provided readers and historians with new critical windows into the long Amerindian past, one inflected by a succession of transformative encounters with outsiders.
Review: The Americans and “Knowing” Russia in the Age of Trump
In the fourth episode of the current season of FX’s widely acclaimed Cold War drama The Americans, Karl Marx appears for the first time in the series.
Review: Man in the High Castle and American Fascism
As a young and hopeful historian, one thing I am commonly asked by friends and family is whether or not their favorite historical drama or “period piece” is “historically accurate.”
