Essays in History & Culture
Multicultural Reflections
Observational essays on history, culture, migration and the ways societies remember change. The essays distinguish documented events from interpretation.
Email access · Personal essay · American identity
September 11 from a Third-Culture Perspective
A newly naturalized American high-school senior remembers the day a family birthday became a national rupture—and belonging became more complicated.
Email access · Iran · Historical memory
The Shah, the Revolution and the Problem of Retrospective Certainty
Iran’s transformation is often narrated as an inevitable collision between dictatorship and revolution. The record is more complicated—and more useful—than that.