“In History Departments, It’s Up With Capitalism,” ran a New York Times headline in April 2013. The article discussed the sharp increase in scholarship and teaching about the history of capitalism in ...

Sven Beckert’s Capitalism: A Global History ranges impressively over time and space, from medieval Yemen to modern-day Cambodia. But we need a clearer political economy of capitalism to make sense of ...

Historian and Harvard University professor Sven Beckert recently published his own contribution to the debate, Capitalism: A Global History, in which he weaves together various strands of historical ...

A specter is haunting university history departments: the specter of capitalism. After decades of “history from below,” focusing on women, minorities and other marginalized people seizing their ...

Sven Beckert isn’t here to judge capitalism, even though he just wrote a provocative, ambitious, 1,300-page book on its history. As he writes several times in the book (which this editor has read), he ...

A new book outlines the intertwined history of capitalism and democracy in the United States, and why pragmatism has outweighed ideology. The United States has always been a beacon of hope for ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Dr. Samuel Gregg was a Visiting Fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies. Study of slavery’s role in shaping economic life in America is essential if we are to ...

For me, writing a paper for American history in high school invariably involved a trip to the library to look up what the historians Charles and Mary Beard had to say about the assigned topic, which ...

Did I ever tell you about my idea for a TV show? I envision it as a kind of alternate-history thriller—think Watchmen meets The Man in the High Castle meets The Plot Against America. The premise: The ...