Political

Gladstone and Disraeli

Simon Lemieux provides guidance on essays comparing the performance of the two adversaries in Victorian Britain.

Stalin and the Photographer

Helen Rappaport tells the story of James Abbe, a little-known American photographer, whose images of the USSR in the 1930s record both the official and unofficial faces of the Stalinist regime.

The Origins of Prussian Militarism

Peter H. Wilson suggests that the aggressiveness of Wilhelmine Germany was not necessarily a direct consequence of the Prussian social system of the eighteenth century.