Fara Dabhoiwala

Charting an Unheroic Past

With her densely textured, ambitious, and deeply collaborative scholarship, the historian Catherine Hall has transformed public discourse about slavery.

Subjects and Concords

“One of the intellectual quirks of professional historians might be that we find pretty much everything interesting and can appreciate why it would be exciting to study.”

Life Is Short. Indexes Are Necessary.

In his new history of the index, Dennis Duncan traces its evolution through the constantly changing character of reading itself.

Becoming Amartya Sen

In his memoir Home in the World the pathbreaking economist and moral philosopher looks back on his much-traveled, multicultural childhood, education, and early academic career.

Apotheosis Now

What does it mean when men are worshiped, willingly or not, as gods?

The Elusive Wit of the Mahatma

Imperial Delusions

From the late eighteenth century onward, the British justified their empire with a continually updated ideology of moral purpose and historical necessity.

Measuring Slavery’s Impact

Speech and Slavery in the West Indies

Slavery was foundational to Britain’s prosperity and rise to global power.

Bed, Bench & Beyond