The period 2010-17, has witnessed a swift turn to the right in politics and culture in post-communist Eastern Europe, accompanied by intensified attempts at assault on a critical history writing field ...

With the first sentence of his kaleidoscopic guide to Eastern Europe’s past, the journalist Jacob Mikanowski reveals that his work is meant to discover, to unearth: “This is a history of a place that ...

When, upon graduation from college in 1973, I traveled for several months throughout communist Eastern Europe, I was warned that I would be entering a dreary gray zone pulverized by the regime-induced ...

Timothy Snyder, Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning (New York: Tim Duggan Books, 2015), 480 pp., $30.00. SEVENTY YEARS after it ended, the Holocaust remains the black hole at the heart ...

Certain European cities have truly ancient roots, but Budapest’s origin story dates closer to the founding of Chicago than Rome. The city has a few notable ruins — a northbound highway runs right by ...

A wave of ancient DNA studies published in Nature has forced a sharp revision of how scientists understand the peopling of ...