In August 2025, JWSFH Co-editor Meghan Roberts had the chance to speak with Terrence (Terry) Peterson, the author of Revolutionary Warfare; How the Algerian War made Modern Counterinsurgency (Cornell ...

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This note on sources discusses an 1842 fundraising appeal by military officials, administrators, and commercial elites seeking to erect a statue in Algiers in honor of Ferdinand Philippe, duc d’Orléan...

This note on sources considers how to write a history of fortune telling by examining a 1931 vice squad report on immoral advertising in illustrated weeklies. The vice squad policed prostitution but, ...

In August 2025, JWSFH Co-editor Meghan Roberts had the chance to speak with Terrence (Terry) Peterson, the author of Revolutionary Warfare; How the Algerian War made Modern Counterinsurgency (Cornell ...

The Centenary of the First World War saw a new focus in official commemoration, cultural production and broader scholarly and public discourses on the figure of the colonial soldier, the tirailleur. I...

A roundtable discussion of Karen Offen's The Woman Question in France, 1400-1870 and Debating the Woman Question in the French Third Republic, 1870-1920 (published by Cambridge University Press in 201...

This article presents the initial findings of research on Claudius La Roussarie, a theater actor and author active in France during the early twentieth century. Despite his literary production, he rem...

Hundreds of Jewish artists arrived in Paris in the first third of the twentieth century, where most attended art schools and established studios in the left-bank artists’ colony of Montparnasse. Forei...