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Peter Mancall on the Struggle for North America, c. 1000–1680
Jun 3
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May 2026
Friday Reflection: "Where's the Omelette?"
Antonia Senior on the Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire
May 29
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Stalin's Apostles
Antonia Senior on the Cambridge Five and their Service to the Soviet Empire
May 27
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The First Ghetto
Alexander Lee on Venice and the Origins of Modern Antisemitism
May 20
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Friday Reflection: Greek Rivalry
Adrian Goldsworthy on the Competition That Shaped Greece
May 15
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Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece
Adrian Goldsworthy on how the two rival Greek city-states shaped the world around them
May 13
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Friday Reflection: Evitable End
Anthony Kaldellis on the Fall of Constantinople
May 8
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1453: The Conquest and Tragedy of Constantinople
Anthony Kaldellis on Resistance, Contingency, and the End of the Roman World
May 6
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Friday Reflection: Nuclear Order
David Holloway on International History, Thermonuclear Fear, and the Fragile Management of Catastrophe
May 1
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April 2026
Nuclear Weapons: An International History
David Holloway on technology transfer, nuclear proliferation, the thermonuclear , and the uneasy order of the atomic age
Apr 29
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Friday Reflection: Emulational Europe
Roderick Beaton on Why Europe Must Be Reimagined
Apr 24
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Europe: A New History
Roderick Beaton on Europe, and Why Its History Always Needs to Be Rewritten
Apr 22
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