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Research-led introductions and critical perspectives on history books, historical films, and documentaries, connecting new releases and notable works with the history behind them.

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Hamnet: Where the Historical Record Ends and Grief Takes Over

A source-based critical guide to Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet, separating Shakespeare-family records from the film’s imaginative account of grief and art.

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John Trumbull’s painting of British and American officers meeting at the surrender, with soldiers behind them.

The Fate of the Day: A Revolution Without a Guaranteed Ending

A source-based critical guide to Rick Atkinson’s The Fate of the Day: military survival, diplomacy, and the uncertain middle years of the American Revolution.

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