Joshua Specht joins the podcast to discuss his new book and America's obsession with land ownership.

YouTube video by Keen On

The average American is worried about the cost of living, particularly housing. The average pundit is worried about the state of our social fabric. These are parallel conversations, but they are close...

Circulating Subjects investigates the migration of women abroad for sex work from the 1880s through the 1930s, which Russian feminists, liberal jurists, and imperial bureaucrats worked together to def...

A wide-ranging history of American land ownership, from westward expansion to the suburban housing crisis

YouTube video by Joshua Specht

The Atlantic writer who previewed an unmoored country

No cause of death was given in a statement from the family of Naroditsky, who became a grandmaster in 2013 and was known as a popular commentator

Announcing the winner of the JHI's 2024 Morris D. Forkosch Book Prize.

The rise of the cheap, daily newspaper in the 19th century remade how Americans engaged with the world.

Russian chess world champion who lost to Bobby Fischer in the sport’s most famous match at the peak of the cold war

Episode 1 of the Animal History Podcast!

Oil Spillovers. Guest Editor: Cyrus Mody. Volume 40, Issue 3 of History and Technology

A critical history of the idea of design--and its utopian promise Design has penetrated every dimension of contemporary society, from classrooms to statehouses to corporate boardrooms. It's seen as ...

The latest issue of the Journal of the History of Ideas (volume 85, issue 4) is now live on Project MUSE. Women and Intellectual History in the Twentieth Century, Part Two: Activists, Academics, ...