History Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/history/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:10:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png History Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/history/ 32 32 Tech, Stones, and Stories: How the Violence of Border Tech is a Historical Matter https://www.publicbooks.org/tech-stones-and-stories-how-the-violence-of-border-tech-is-a-historical-matter/ Tue, 14 Oct 2025 15:00:51 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=60832 Border technologies live within loops of failure → crisis → fix → failure → crisis → fix, eternally to be tested. It will work, promise! Just wait for one more iteration.

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]]> Borders Are War by Other Means https://www.publicbooks.org/borders-are-war-by-other-means-chaar-lopez/ Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:09:18 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=60901 The border today is and is made through sociotechnical arrangements centering data in the regulation of racial difference.

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]]> “A Second Enlightenment”: Greg Grandin on Latin America, the United States, and the Creation of Social-Democratic Modernity https://www.publicbooks.org/a-second-enlightenment-greg-grandin-on-latin-america-the-united-states-and-the-creation-of-social-democratic-modernity/ Tue, 09 Sep 2025 15:00:13 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=60590 “My books try to explain a tension.”

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]]> “Independence and Abolition Went Hand in Hand”: Julia Gaffield on Jean-Jacques Dessalines https://www.publicbooks.org/independence-and-abolition-went-hand-in-hand-julia-gaffield-on-jean-jacques-dessalines-and-the-haitian-revolution/ Wed, 06 Aug 2025 15:00:22 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=60395 “Securing the first permanent, universal, and immediate abolition of slavery was Jean-Jacques Dessalines’s legacy.”

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]]> Once upon a Time in Tenoxtitlan https://www.publicbooks.org/once-upon-a-time-in-tenoxtitlan/ Wed, 30 Jul 2025 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=60312 Two novels published in 2024 return to some of the best-known, canonical figures and episodes from Mexico’s past.

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]]> Are Species Timeless?: Talking with Bathsheba Demuth About the Arctic https://www.publicbooks.org/are-species-timeless-talking-with-bathsheba-demuth-about-the-arctic/ Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:00:21 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=60140 “There was an interdependence that was very clear in the animal relationships in the Arctic.”

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]]> Secrets in the Stacks https://www.publicbooks.org/secrets-in-the-stacks/ Thu, 22 May 2025 15:00:42 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59670 A new book demonstrates that the skills taught and honed in the humanities are of vital importance to the defense of democracy.

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]]> Borders May Change, But People Remain https://www.publicbooks.org/borders-may-change-but-people-remain/ Thu, 24 Apr 2025 15:00:49 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59496 The legacies of conflict—and their increasingly accessible images in a global age—frame the shared bonds of trauma in keeping the memories of these conflicts alive.

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]]> A Heaven Reflected on Earth: The Golden Temple, Amritsar https://www.publicbooks.org/a-heaven-reflected-on-earth-the-golden-temple-amritsar/ Wed, 27 Nov 2024 16:00:44 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=58187 Gleaming turrets reflect in the still water, just as, according to the Sikh faith, heaven is reflected on earth.

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]]> A Peek Behind the Old Town’s Walls: Dubrovnik, Croatia https://www.publicbooks.org/a-peak-behind-the-old-towns-walls-dubrovnik-croatia/ Wed, 07 Aug 2024 15:00:33 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=57112 “On the top of the walls, I stopped to admire the panoramic Adriatic Sea views. Below, a basketball court abutted the walls, and kids were shooting hoops.”

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