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By Guest Contributor Alison McManus Princeton’s History of Science Colloquium series recently welcomed Jutta Schickore, professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University, to present a talk titled, “Contributions to a History of Experimental Controls.” In addition to… Continue Reading →
By Contributing Editor Nuala F. Caomhánach Kimberly A. Hamlin. From Eve to Evolution: Darwin, Science, and Women’s Rights in Gilded Age America. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2014. Erika Lorraine Milam. Looking for a Few Good Males:… Continue Reading →
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. Eric: Michael C. Behrent, “Age… Continue Reading →
By guest contributor João Paulo Pimenta This post is a companion piece to Prof. Pimenta’s article in the Journal of the History of Ideas vol. 79, no. 1, “History of Concepts and the Historiography of the Independence of Brazil: A Preliminary Diagnosis.“… Continue Reading →
By guest contributor Timothy Young A garden is not a metaphor. A garden is actual. It is literal – in all the best senses of that word. It may carry meaning, but most importantly, it makes its own meaning. Much… Continue Reading →
Some reading gathered for you from around the web by members of the JHIBlog team. Let us know what else has caught your eye this week in the comments! Kristin: Mary Beard, “Sex and Death in the Classical World” (New Statesman) Jonathan… Continue Reading →
By guest contributor Meg Foster Heroes are big business in popular culture. From ancient Greek and Roman legends, through to the popular Marvel comic figures of our own time, we have spent centuries on the lookout for exceptional men and… Continue Reading →
By Editor Spencer J. Weinreich It is seldom recalled that there were several “Great Plagues of London.” In scholarship and popular parlance alike, only the devastating epidemic of bubonic plague that struck the city in 1665 and lasted the better… Continue Reading →
Here’s what our editorial team has been reading this week—let us know what you think and what you’ve been reading! Brendan: Tim Rogan, Why Amartya Sen remains the century’s great critic of capitalism (Aeon) Jamie Fisher, The Left-Handed Kid (LRB)… Continue Reading →
By guest contributor Pamela C. Nogales C. Prompted by the experience of the second world war, historian Lewis Namier described the undemocratic birth of modern republics in his 1848: The Revolution of the Intellectuals (1944) and warned of the unintended consequences… Continue Reading →
