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.
The Future is Another Country
S-Town is much more than a mystery narrative; it is all at once a biography, soap opera, eulogy, and history.
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.
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.
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.”