Reviews

Elizabeth Stice 9/30/25 Elizabeth Stice 9/30/25

Lived on; and so did I.

Elizabeth Stice reviews The Killing Season: The Autumn of 1914, Ypres, and the Afternoon That Cost Germany The War by Robert Cowley (Random House, 2025)

Elizabeth Stice 9/16/25 Elizabeth Stice 9/16/25

World War II and the Fight for Freedom

Elizabeth Stice reviews 1942: When World War II Engulfed the Globe by Peter Fritzsche (Basic Books, 2025)

Elizabeth Stice 8/26/25 Elizabeth Stice 8/26/25

A Contest for the Ages: Deciphering Cuneiform

Elizabeth Stice reviews The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World’s Oldest Writing by Joshua Hammer (Simon & Schuster, 2025)

Elizabeth Stice 8/19/25 Elizabeth Stice 8/19/25

Have Memoir and Geiger Counter, Will Travel

Elizabeth Stice reviews Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance by Joe Dunthorne (Simon & Schuster, 2025)

Elizabeth Stice 7/31/25 Elizabeth Stice 7/31/25

History underfoot and on display

Elizabeth Stice reviews Threads of Empire: A History of the World in Twelve Carpets by Dorothy Armstrong (St. Martin’s Press, 2025)

Elizabeth Stice 7/15/25 Elizabeth Stice 7/15/25

The Poor Devils

Elizabeth Stice reviews The Writer’s Lot: Culture and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France by Robert Darnton (Belknap Press, 2025)

Elizabeth Stice 6/24/25 Elizabeth Stice 6/24/25

A Fair Fight

Joel Tannenbaum reviews How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist who Outwitted Hitler by Peter Pomerantsev (Hachette, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice 4/24/25 Elizabeth Stice 4/24/25

Chess: A Microcosm of the AI Revolution

Brody Eldridge reviews The Chess Revolution: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age by Peter Doggers (Puzzlewright Press, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice 4/15/25 Elizabeth Stice 4/15/25

The Present of the Past

Elizabeth Stice reviews The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the Present by Oswyn Murray (Belknap Press, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice 4/10/25 Elizabeth Stice 4/10/25

To Spur a Virtuous Cycle

Sarah Selden reviews Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green (Crash Course Books, 2025)

Elizabeth Stice 3/27/25 Elizabeth Stice 3/27/25

America’s Original Culture War

Matthew Sparacio reviews The Memory of ‘76: The Revolution in American Memory by Michael D. Hattem (Yale University Press, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice 3/13/25 Elizabeth Stice 3/13/25

Read one for the Gipper?

Elizabeth Stice reviews The Ancient Eight: College Football’s Ivy League and the Game They Play Today by John Feinstein (Hachette, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice 2/27/25 Elizabeth Stice 2/27/25

One toe over the line

Elizabeth Stice reviews Borderlines: A History of Europe in 29 Borders by Lewis Baston (Hodder, 2025)

Elizabeth Stice 2/4/25 Elizabeth Stice 2/4/25

Starving Dreamlessly or Sensemaking on the Western Front?

Elizabeth Stice reviews Making Sense of the Great War: Crisis, Englishness, and Morale on the Western Front by Alex Mayhew (Cambridge University Press, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice 1/23/25 Elizabeth Stice 1/23/25

A Promise Kept

Dana Dickson reviews An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice 1/16/25 Elizabeth Stice 1/16/25

The many men, so beautiful!/ And they all dead did lie:/ And a thousand thousand slimy things/Lived on; and so did I.

Elizabeth Stice reviews The Killing Season: The Autumn of 1914, Ypres, and the Afternoon That Cost Germany The War by Robert Cowley (Random House, 2025)

Elizabeth Stice 12/31/24 Elizabeth Stice 12/31/24

Goodbye to all that?

William M Knoblauch reviews The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era by Gary Gerstle (Oxford University Press, 2023)