In eighteenth-century New Orleans, the legal testimony of some 150 enslaved women and men--like the testimony of free colonists--was meticulously recorded and preserved...

Who or what originated and/or caused the Great War from breaking out in July 1914?

Who was the real Marie-Antoinette?

Byrne places Algeria at the center of many of the twentieth-century’s international dynamics: decolonization, the Cold War, détente,..

How does the world of book reviews work?

Shepard offers a complex analysis of the lasting impact of the Algerian Revolution through the cultural politics of sex, gender, and power in France....

If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...

Pearson recounts France’s collision with the UN and World Health Organization in the immediate post-World War II years...

In pre-emancipation Europe, most Jews followed Jewish law most of the time, but by the turn of the twentieth century, a new secular Jewish identity had begun to take shape...

Glaes examines the experiences and agency of African immigrants in France from 1960 through the 1970s.,,

Ross maps out the intersection between histories of sexualities and the urban history of Paris in the 1800s

The Versailles Treaty of 1919, celebrates its one-hundred anniversary this year...

Carayon answers the long-standing question of how, and how well, Indigenous Americans and the Europeans who arrived on their shores communicated with each other...

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?

Weber has done the painstaking research to find out who were the real-life people on whom Proust modeled some of the most memorable characters...

Both colonies and insane asylums are well known institutions of power. But what of asylums in Europe’s early 20th-century colonial empires?

Kim tangles with the question of difference so central to French feminism, theory...

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

NIcholls offers the first comprehensive account of French revolutionary thought in the years between the crushing of France's last nineteenth-century revolution and the re-emergence of socialism as a meaningful electoral force,..

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

What’s the first image that comes to mind when you hear the words “Paris” and “photography”?

How can the history of rubber be used as a way to understand the history of 20th-century Vietnam?

Vidal offers a lively portrait of the city and a probing investigation of the French colonists who established racial slavery in New Orleans...

Beauvior is now celebrated, but during her life she was a controversial figure both by conventional and feminists’ standards...