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Nina Sankovitch
Writing about the past to understand the present and build the future.
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The Death of Mahsa Amini and the Liberties We Cannot Take for Granted: Fighting for Justice in Iran…
The Death of Mahsa Amini and the Liberties We Cannot Take for Granted: Fighting for Justice in Iran…
Every week, I receive dozens of messages from Iranians sharing their love of books and of reading with me. My book Tolstoy and the Purple…
Nina Sankovitch
Oct 1, 2022
The Founders Abhorred a Mob
The Founders Abhorred a Mob
The American Revolution was not brought about by a mob. In fact, in the eleven years leading up to the Declaration of Independence…
Nina Sankovitch
Jan 11, 2021
The Tyranny of False Patriots and Lessons of Historical Ones
The Tyranny of False Patriots and Lessons of Historical Ones
Americans carrying assault weapons into public spaces, whether it is to intimidate or “to protect,” are not patriots. Armed to the teeth…
Nina Sankovitch
May 17, 2020
Fighting Illness and the British in Colonial Boston
Fighting Illness and the British in Colonial Boston
In December of 1774, Edmund Quincy, merchant and justice of the peace in Boston, wrote to his daughter Katy (sister to Dorothy and future…
Nina Sankovitch
Mar 16, 2020
Divided Loyalties: The American Revolution
Divided Loyalties: The American Revolution
Divided Loyalties: the American Revolution
Nina Sankovitch
Jan 2, 2020
America’s First Impeachment
America’s First Impeachment
The very first case of impeachment in America was brought in 1774, instigated by the colonial House of Representatives against Peter…
Nina Sankovitch
Nov 7, 2019
How I Wrote American Rebels
How I Wrote American Rebels
First, the why?
Nina Sankovitch
Jan 23, 2020
American Rebels: Answering Questions Raised by Long-Ago Historians
American Rebels: Answering Questions Raised by Long-Ago Historians
Three years ago, while browsing through the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, I came across a captivating book by a man…
Nina Sankovitch
Apr 8, 2020
Failures and Reparations: Slavery and the American Revolution
Failures and Reparations: Slavery and the American Revolution
Yes, the Founding Fathers caved on slavery. The concession to certain southern colonies on the issue of slavery was made primarily to keep…
Nina Sankovitch
Jul 29, 2020
Loving Mysteries/Writing Histories
Loving Mysteries/Writing Histories
I love to read mysteries. I used to think of mysteries as the book equivalent of candy corn, my special treat which gave me a rush but not…
Nina Sankovitch
Nov 21, 2021
Partisan Courts and the American Dream of Justice
Partisan Courts and the American Dream of Justice
The fight for independence in the 1770s was in large part motivated by the colonists’ disgust with how the King and Parliament sought to…
Nina Sankovitch
Oct 12, 2020
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