Tainted legacies

Danny Bird How have US views of Latin America changed over time? Greg Grandin When the United States first emerged, what was then known as ‘Spanish America’ was part of the Spanish empire. Early US le

The last time most Libyans saw Saif al-Islam Gaddafi alive was in 2021. Muammar Gaddafi’s son, who for some time had been considered his heir apparent, had not been seen for years before, to the exten

John P. Murphy New Deal Art 336pp. Thames and Hudson. Paperback, £19.99. Seymour Fogel’s “Wealth of the Nation”, installed in 1942 in a federal building in Washington DC, depicts a group of workers en

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Memories of Maoism It’s 35 years since Jung ...

Leading historians share the texts that have inspired and informed their work