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Michael W. Robbins

Michael W. Robbins is a historian and former editor of both Audubon magazine and MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History. His most recent book is Lest We Forget: The Great War.

Sepia-toned image of army trainees ill with influenza on twin-sized cots in a large, crowded room. Doctors and nurses sit or stand nearby.

The First Wave

Remembering the Influenza Pandemic of 1918–19

by Michael W. Robbins | Thursday, April 23, 2020
Finding Time

Finding Time

Geochronologists establish precise dates for events that occurred eons ago

by Michael W. Robbins | Tuesday, September 04, 2018
Winning the Second World War

Winning the Second World War

Some reasons why the Allies made it happen

by Michael W. Robbins | Saturday, August 15, 2020

THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

2nd Look

The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died last year at the age of 70. She is beloved for her sweeping Wolf Hall trilogy, for which she won two Booker Prizes. But long before rehabilitating Thomas Cromwell’s reputation, Mantel was unparalleled in her crystalline dissections of power, whether between girls at the University of London or Dantonists in the French Revolution. In honor of Mantel’s enormous contributions to literature, dive back into her Tudor world with Penelope Rowlands’s essay about one of the key power dynamics Mantel explored: that between Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.

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