This Black August, Americans will study, meditate, fast, exercise – and read – for Black liberation
Organizations across the country traditionally use the month as a means of activation for local communities
‘Like if John Sayles directed Forrest Gump’: the incredible life of historian Howard Zinn
The life of the hugely influential ‘people’s historian’ is explored in a wide-ranging new book that brings in everything from wars to civil rights to Matt Damon
Don MacRaild obituary
Other lives: Historian who produced groundbreaking research on Irish Catholic and Protestant immigration, and labour history
Juliet Gardiner obituary
Historian and author known for three major books – about Britain during the second world war, life in the 1930s and the place of the blitz in national mythology
Carlo Ginzburg obituary
Italian academic and author who challenged traditional approaches with his pursuit of microhistory
Obama’s former speechwriter Ben Rhodes examines the US through its 15 most defining speeches
From Frederick Douglass to Obama, Ben Rhodes shares the speeches that explain the US in his new book, All We Say
Anna Ritchie obituary
Archaeologist whose excavations in Orkney included Knap of Howar, with domestic buildings more than 5,000 years old
Peter Stead obituary
Other lives: Swansea University historian whose attention focused on popular culture and its practitioners
Dame Averil Cameron obituary
Historian whose sparky, innovative Byzantines challenged the stereotype of a stagnant society with nothing new to offer
The crisis whisperer: how Adam Tooze makes sense of our bewildering age
The long read: Whether it’s the financial crash, the climate emergency or the breakdown of the international order, historian Adam Tooze has become the go-to guide to the radical new world we’ve entered
Brutal, vibrant and creative: capturing the soul of Latin America in 100 photographs
The journalist and historian Paulo Antonio Paranaguá uses images from the turbulent continent to weave a history of the region, covering colonisation, slavery and dictatorship
Kemi Badenoch wants to end ‘rip-off degrees’ – but I wouldn’t have created Horrid Henry without mine
I studied Old and Middle English. Although I didn’t know it, I couldn’t have chosen a better subject to train me to become a children’s author, says author Francesca Simon
Frank O’Gorman obituary
Other lives: Manchester University historian who wrote books on 18th- and 19th-century society
Qiu Xigui obituary
Paleographer, historian and expert on ancient Chinese writing
Carol Diethe obituary
Other lives: Lecturer in the history of ideas who became one of the UK’s leading Nietzsche scholars