Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

Harvard historian Robert Darnton in the New York Review of Books , [$] reviewing Arlette Farge's 1989 book The Allure of the Archive...

Maya Jasanoff in the New York Review of Books , reviewing Walter Johnson's River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdo...

The context folder overflows: * "Micro-history at its best" is EH.net reviewer Christina Lubinski's take on Entrepreneurial...

The highly readable neurologist Oliver ( The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat ) Sacks takes his own memories for a subject in a recent New...

The current New York Review of Books includes a nice review of what sounds like a good readable background book if your research takes you ...