by guest contributor Ana Stevenson At the 2017 Australian Historical Association Conference, in a panel about digital history, Professor Victoria Haskins discussed what she described as a “replica archive.” Haskins’ research is concerned with Indigenous domestic servants in Australia and… Continue Reading →
By guest contributor Joel S. Davidi In my last post on the history of the first of Nisan as a Jewish new year I discussed the history of this now mostly forgotten holiday into the tenth century. Until this point, this… Continue Reading →
By Contributing Editor Eric Brandom Mme Forestier, who was playing with a knife, added: –Yes…yes…it is good to be loved… And she seemed to press her dream further, to think of things she dared not say. These are lines from a… Continue Reading →
By guest contributor Jacob Romanow When people call a book “melodramatic,” they usually mean it as an insult. Melodrama is histrionic, implausible, and (therefore) artistically subpar—a reviewer might use the term to suggest that serious readers look elsewhere. Victorian novels,… Continue Reading →
By editor Erin McGuirl This summer, I spent a week at Rare Book School at the University of Virginia doing something new and I loved it. I was a newcomer to a group of Lab Instructors guiding students through a… Continue Reading →
By guest contributor Lynn-Salammbô Zimmermann In the mid-14th century BCE, a group of young female singers contracted an unknown disease. A corpus of letters from Nippur, a religious and administrative center in the Middle Babylonian kingdom (modern-day Iraq), tells us about… Continue Reading →
By guest contributor Burkhard Conrad O.P.L. Any history of ideas and concepts hinges on the observation that ideas and concepts change over time. This notion seems to be so self-evident that the question of why they change is rarely addressed…. Continue Reading →
By guest contributor Emily Yankowitz On December 30, 1806, on the inner cover of his first attempt at writing a historical work, the New Hampshire statesman William Plumer wrote, “An historian, like a witness, is bound to relate the truth,… Continue Reading →
By guest contributor Niklas Plaetzer Walter Benjamin never left Europe, yet his writings have had a remarkable impact on critical thought around the globe. As Edward Said suggested, the dislocation of an idea in time and space can never leave its… Continue Reading →
By guest contributor N. A. Mansour Arabic periodicals are perhaps the greatest source for the history of the Arabic-speaking lands in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Looking for Arabic primary sources from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries can be a minefield. Some… Continue Reading →
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