He wrote several other books and was also the co-author, with Yale historian Peter Gay, of another college textbook, “Modern Europe,” first published in 1973. (Family photo) - Robert K. Webb was perhaps best known as the author of “Modern England: From...

This at least proves that engaging with modernism – reading, thinking and writing about it – can still serve some purpose for people like us. If that’s so, then what’s the most useful way of relating to modernism today? You call Peter Gay’s book an...

In 1909, after a six-day journey from Vienna with his associates Carl Jung and Sándor Ferenczi, Sigmund Freud arrived in New York Harbor and spent a week sightseeing in the city. He had traveled to America to give a series of lectures on his “talking...