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Elizabeth Bentley: The True Story That Inspired a Novel
by Karin Tanabe When I decided that I wanted to write about a woman in the 1950s, who was struggling with motherhood against the backdrop of the Cold War, the idea of her being a...
A Woman of Intelligence: Featured Excerpt
Karin Tanabe’s A Woman of Intelligence is an exhilarating novel of post-war New York City, and one remarkable woman’s journey from the United Nations, to the cloistered drawing...
The Forgotten Hero of the Cold War
by Giles Milton The greatest heroes of the Second World War are rightly celebrated for their acts of extraordinary daring on the battlefields of Nazi-occupied Europe. Rather less...
USS Franklin: Attack, Survival, and Triumph
by P. T. Deutermann My novel, Trial by Fire, is based on the true story of the aircraft carrier USS Ben Franklin (CV-13) and the brave sailors who were able to save their ship...
Ancient Rome’s Short-Lived Teen Emperor: Practical Joker, Drag Queen, Transgender?
by Steven Saylor Psssst! Have you heard about Elagabalus? They say he invented the world’s first whoopee cushion. No, really! I’m pretty sure I heard Mary Beard say that. They...
JAH Author Wins Rasmussen Award
We are excited to share that Gabriel N. Rosenberg’s September 2020 JAH article, “No Scrubs: Livestock Breeding, Eugenics, and the State in the Early Twentieth-Century United...
1933: Democracy Destroyed
by Frank McDonough In the following excerpt from The Hitler Years: Triumph 1933-1939, Frank McDonough discusses the political environment in Germany in 1933 as Adolf Hitler sets...