Historian Chabal (France) offers an enthralling intellectual biography of “communist polymath” and historian Eric Hobsbawm. Born in 1917 in Alexandria, Egypt, to English-Jewish Continue reading » The ...

Hortense Mancini’s story, of a child bride trapped by a monster, would’ve been a footnote in history books. Until she fought back and ran away. Hortense spent the rest of her life running from her ...

The New York Times essay “Will the E-Book Kill the Footnote?” discusses how many e-books turn footnotes into endnotes, which may or may not be hyperlinked. Author Alexandra Horowitz laments, “Few of ...

THE MISSION by Hans Habe. 319 pages. Coward-McCann. $6. In 1938, Adolf Hitler rejected an invitation to attend a meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for Refugees, formed by Franklin D.