Reviews
A Giant in the Field
Elizabeth Stice reviews The Age of Hobsbawm: The Life of a Revolutionary Historian by Emile Chabal (Belknap Press, 2026)
The Tumult Between the Storms
William Skiles reviews Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe by Katja Hoyer (Basic Books, 2026)
So weird, so wonderful
Johnna Ryan reviews Miracula: Weird and Wonderful Stories of Ancient Greece and Rome by Paul Chrystal (Reaktion Books, 2025)
Warhol’s Pleasure Island
Michael Jimenez reviews Warhol’s Muses: The Artists, Misfits, and Superstars Destroyed by the Factory Fame Machine by Laurence Leamer (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2025)
A Fraternity of the Furnace
Elizabeth Stice reviews The Fires of Moloch: Anglican Clergymen in the Furnace of World War One by Timothy Larsen (Oxford University Press, 2025)
Sticks and Stones, Silk and Ink
Elizabeth Stice reviews The University: A History in Stone, Silk, and Blood by William Whyte (Harvard University Press, 2026)
On the Road Again
Christian McNamara reviews This Land is Your Land: A Road Trip Through U.S. History by Beverly Gage (Simon & Schuster, 2026)
Recentering the “War” in the War for Independence
Matthew J Sparacio reviews The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence by Lauren Duval (University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, 2025)
“Yet other wild silk worlds to conquer,” the powerful pull of silk
Saija Wilson reviews Silk: A World History by Aarathi Prasad (William Morrow, 2024)
Apples, America, and Adulthood
Elizabeth Stice reviews American Rambler: Walking the Trail of Johnny Appleseed by Isaac Fitzgerald (Knopf, 2026)
With liberty and independence for all?
Elizabeth Stice reviews Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal by Quentin Skinner (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
Recovering Neutral Ground
Matthew Sparacio reviews Nobody Men: Neutrality, Loyalties, and Family in the American Revolution by Travis Glasson (Yale University Press, 2025)
Analog Intelligence
Elizabeth Stice reviews The Idea Machine: How Books Built Our World and Shape Our Future by Joel J. Miller (Prometheus Books, 2025)
A Boys’ Own Forgotten Front of World War I
Elizabeth Stice reviews Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War One by Nick Higham (Bloomsbury, 2025)
From the Stacks: Islands and Beaches
From the Stacks: Elizabeth Stice explains what is great about Islands and Beaches: Discourse on a silent land: Marquesas 1774-1880 by Greg Dening (The Dorsey Press, 1980)
Regarding the Pain of Others in the American Revolution
Matthew Sparacio reviews Under Alien Skies: Environment, Suffering, and the Defeat of the British Military in Revolutionary America by Vaughn Scribner (University of North Carolina Press, 2024)
Attention! At Ease! Florida’s Military Role Preceded Disney World
Roger Chapman reviews State of War: A History of World War II in Florida by Anthony D. Atwood (University Press of Florida, 2025)
A Feral Child and the Fringes of Human Knowledge
Elizabeth Stice reviews The Forbidden Experiment: The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron by Roger Shattuck, with introduction by Jed Perl (New York Review of Books, 2025).
Composing the Revolution Across the Atlantic
Matthew J Sparacio reviews The Painter’s Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution by Zara Anishanslin (Harvard University Press, 2025)
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