Understanding Society

MI Finley (1912-1986) played a transformative role in the development of studies of the ancient world in the 1960s through the 1980s. He con...

The years following the collapse of the socialist-Stalinist regimes of eastern Europe were not comfortable for the people of the GDR, Romani...

Do organizations have properties that are in some recognizable way independent from the behaviors and intentions of the individuals who inha...

It is noteworthy that some of the very best historical research and writing of the 1930s through 1970s in Britain was carried out by a group...

For the past six months or so I've been wrestling with how to reformulate my own thinking about the nature of the social world -- the na...

I've spent the last several weeks designing a new honors course for juniors on the catastrophes of the twentieth century. It's not a...

The courageous Catherine Burks-Brooks passed in early July in Birmingham, Alabama, at the age of 83. The New York Times ran an extensive an...

On any given day some 7,000 freight trains are in motion around the United States, with perhaps 70,000 individual freight cars and intermoda...

Christopher Browning is a noted and respected historian of the Nazi period and the Holocaust ( link ). His October 2022 article in the Atlan...

Diane Vaughan's recent Dead Reckoning: Air Traffic Control, System Effects, and Risk is an important contribution to the literature on ...