Year 2018
by guest contributor Alison McManus For less populated fields of history, a conference designed for intellectual exchange can occasionally double as an existence proof. The workshop for the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry must have appeared to… Continue Reading →
Here are a few pieces that have caught the attention of our editorial team this week: Derek Brandon M. Terry, “MLK Now” (Boston Review) Teresa Kroeger et al., “The state of graduate student employee unions” (Economic Policy Institute) Lewis Lapham,… Continue Reading →
By Editor Derek O’Leary, in conversation with curator Diana Greenwold It can be easy to imagine the early American republic as rushing headlong into the future during its first half-century—westward with the suppression of Indian society, seaborne to new markets… Continue Reading →
By Contributing Writer Sarah Pickman In 1848 Peter Halkett, a lieutenant in the British Royal Navy, published his designs for a most curious invention. Halkett was interested in the numerous exploratory expeditions the Navy had sent to the Canadian Arctic… Continue Reading →
Here are a few of the pieces the team at the JHI blog have been reading over the last week: Derek “The World in Time”: Interview with Eric Foner (Lapham’s Quarterly) Anton Jaeger, “The Myth of Populism” (Jacobin) Richard… Continue Reading →
by contributing writer Jonathon Catlin This post is adapted from the author’s contribution to a panel discussion entitled “The Frankfurt School Knew Trump Was Coming” hosted by the Leo Baeck Institute, New York City on October 25, 2017, featuring co-panelists… Continue Reading →
by contributing writer Agatha A. Slupek Simone Weil (1909-1943) occupies a liminal position in the history of ideas. While Weil’s thought is an established concern for scholars of religion and mysticism, she is neglected in the Anglophone study of the… Continue Reading →
Happy New Year! Here are a few pieces that the JHI blog team have been reading over the holiday season. Derek Adam Hochschild, “Ku Klux Klambakes” (NYRB) Robin D.G. Kelley, “Coates and West in Jackson” (Boston Review) Randall Kenney, “The… Continue Reading →
by Contributing Writer Lucy Valsamidis Athens was doing badly in the war against Sparta. The fleet had been devastated in Sicily, and morale and cash were running low. When Peisander appeared in the assembly and explained the only way to… Continue Reading →
By Contributing Writer Stephan Steiner “Images have been reproached for being a way of watching suffering at a distance, as if there were some other way of watching” (Susan Sontag). In other words: If we want to understand visually, then… Continue Reading →
