A History of the World in 12 Shipwrecks. By David Gibbins. St Martin’s Press; 304 pages; $32. W&N; £25 A spectre is haunting history—the listicle. You know the formula: a history of something enormous ...
Recently, President Donald Trump moved to exert control over the way that American history is presented in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. This is certainly not the job of any elected ...