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What We’re Reading: Week of August 20th

Here are a few interesting articles and pieces we found around the web this week. If you come across something that other intellectual historians might enjoy, please let us know in the comments section! John: Essay: “The Unquiet Past” (The… Continue Reading →

2015/08/21 0

When was the age of information?

By Paul Duguid My principal connection to the field of history is through an undergraduate course I co-teach called “History of Information.” It’s a course that seeks to take students from Lascaux to WhatsApp and beyond in fifteen weeks: its… Continue Reading →

2015/08/17 2

What We’re Reading: Week of August 10

Here are a few interesting articles and pieces we found around the web this week. If you come across something that other intellectual historians might enjoy, please let us know in the comments section! Madeline: Rachel Ahern Knudson, “Fanfiction in… Continue Reading →

2015/08/14 1

What We’re Reading: Week of August 3

Here are a few interesting articles and pieces we found around the web this week. If you come across something that other intellectual historians might enjoy, please let us know in the comments section! Madeline: Sarah Werner, “How to destroy… Continue Reading →

2015/08/07 1

Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading in the Archive (II)

by Emily Rutherford Last week, I wrote about how easy it is to become paranoid in the Victorian archive—that is, how reading against the grain in search of sexuality can overwhelm other routes to understanding and, perhaps, more interesting and… Continue Reading →

2015/08/03 4

JHI 76:3 Available / What We’re Reading: Week of July 27

We’re happy to announce that the July issue of the Journal of the History of Ideas is now available at Project Muse. The table of contents is below, and we will be featuring some posts from this issue’s authors in… Continue Reading →

2015/08/01 0

Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading in the Archive (I)

by Emily Rutherford It seems no wonder, then, that paranoia, once the topic is broached in a nondiagnostic context, seems to grow like a crystal in a hypersaturated solution, blotting out any sense of the possibility of alternative ways of… Continue Reading →

2015/07/27 4

What We’re Reading: Week of July 20

Here are a few interesting articles and pieces we found around the web this week. If you come across something that other intellectual historians might enjoy, please let us know in the comments section! Emily: My favorite thing I read… Continue Reading →

2015/07/25 0

Reform and Renewal: Notes on the International Medieval Congress, Leeds

by guest contributor Jake Purcell Every medievalist has two Major Events marked in their calendar each summer. The first is the International Congress on Medieval Studies, held in May in Kalamazoo, MI. I’ve just returned from the second: the International… Continue Reading →

2015/07/20 0

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