Erstwhile at the Movies: The Revenant
In Erstwhile‘s second podcast, editors Beau Driver and Graeme Pente and regular contributor Travis R. May discuss the Oscar frontrunner and its representation of the frontier West. Click here to download!
Revolution or Reform? Bernie Sanders and American Socialism
Erstwhile editor Graeme Pente offers a brief history of socialism in the United States, highlighting its relationship to Bernie Sanders’s campaign. Bernie Sanders’s campaign for the Democratic Party nomination has produced an incredible amount of public discussion. As his polling numbers have risen and after his surprising successes in the early primaries, one of…
Graphic Histories: Trinity by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm
Erstwhile‘s Beau Driver kicks off a news series on historical graphic novels by reviewing Jonathan Fetter-Vorm’s Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb in the inaugural edition of Erstwhile‘s “Graphic Histories.” Last year, I had the pleasure of interviewing Ari Kelman about his and Jonathan Fetter-Vorm’s wonderful graphic history of the Civil War, Battle…
January Links Round-Up
Erstwhile blogger Caroline Grego compiles a short list of history-related news links from the past month. She admits that this month’s links round-up is even more grab-bag than usual, opening with dispatches from academia, and ending with two (hopefully useful) online resources. Academics Get Real by Colleen Flaherty During the last two weeks of…
Erstwhile: A History Blog 