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By Editor Spencer Weinreich The great ships of maritime history are protagonists in their own right. That iconic trio of explorers, Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria. That martyr for American imperialism, USS Maine. That scientific trailblazer, HMS Beagle. That bold adventurer, Kon-Tiki. Following the “lives” of these… Continue Reading →

By contributing editor Jonathon Catlin and guest contributor Lotte Houwink ten Cate From June 6–9, 2019, over thirty eminent scholars of German and Jewish history and culture gathered in Berlin at the conference “Mosse’s Europe: New Perspectives in the Study… Continue Reading →

By guest contributor Hannes Bajohr In 1974, the philosopher Hans Blumenberg – known for such massive tomes as The Legitimacy of the Modern Age, The Genesis of the Copernican World, and Work on Myth – received the prestigious Kuno Fischer… Continue Reading →

by guest contributor Alexis Rider April 22 was Earth Day: an annual, global, day of mobilization to push for environmental reform. Often painted as the origin story of the environmental movement, Earth Day, which began in 1970, was originally about… Continue Reading →

Dear Historians of Ideas, It goes without saying that the graduate school comprehensive exam is one of the more daunting challenges of academic life. The very assembly of a reading list can become an ungainly and depleting ordeal in itself,… Continue Reading →

By Contributing Writer Michael Kinadeter The conference “The Mahabharata in Modern Intellectual History: Perspectives from South Asia, Europe, and East Asia” organized by Milinda Banerjee at Ludwig–Maximilians-Universität Munich on 24 November 2018, addressed the dearth of academic engagement with the… Continue Reading →

Here is the second installment of our reading recommendations to kick start your summer… Spencer A few scattershot things I’ve read, am reading, or plan to read this month: Robert Walser, Jakob von Gunten: Welcome to the Benjamenta Institute, a… Continue Reading →