As "Countdown to Zero" producer Lawrence Bender discovered, making a movie about nuclear weapons isn't exactly easy. Most people don't think about them, and those who do don't necessarily want to ...
1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe
by Mary Elise Sarotte
—Reviewed by Adam Fleisher
It’s been more than 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, and we still can’t a...
It was stolen by Nazis. It was fought over in the United States and Austria. When it sold to cosmetics baron Ron Lauder in 2006, it fetched the highest price ever paid for a painting: $135 million. Kn...
Charity has been around for as long as humankind, but philanthropy as we know it is much younger. Launched by titans like Andrew Carnegie and enshrined in the U.S. tax code, philanthropy in America is...
The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America
by Mae Ngai
Hyphenated cultures seem to be a natural part of California’s landscape today, but it wasn’t always so. The Lucky Ones by Mae Ngai offers a fresh look at California history by reconstructing the lives of immigrant and second generation pioneers who lived between cultures when it was not such a common phenomenon. Ngai’s narrative brings Chinese Americans into a richer tradition of historical storytelling by humanizing an ambivalent, middle-class immigrant family, situating their lives within the more well-known histories of Chinese laborers and those who suffered from the 1882 Exclusion Act.
