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Global/Universal History: A Warning

by contributing editor Disha Karnad Jani Last week, in an essay on the state of global history, historian Jeremy Adelman asked, “In our fevered present of Nation-X First, of resurgent ethno-nationalism, what’s the point of recovering global pasts?” In the… Continue Reading →

Russian Art 1917-1932 at the Royal Academy, London

by guest contributor Audrey Borowski The imperial red hits you as soon as you enter the Royal Academy’s latest exhibition, “Revolution: Russian Art 1917-1932,” which sets out to explore the frenzy that gripped the Russian artistic scene between 1917 and… Continue Reading →

March 6, 2017 2

Forms of Bureaucracy

by editor John Raimo What sorts of history does bureaucracy yield, and what might histories of bureaucracy itself look like? That the two questions remain distinct yet fall closely together emerged in the course of an excellent recent conference organized… Continue Reading →

March 1, 2017 1

Saving Nigeria

by guest contributor James Farquharson The year 2017 will mark fifty years since the start of the Nigerian Civil War. One of postcolonial Africa’s most devastating conflicts, the war left between one and three million people dead. This year is… Continue Reading →

February 27, 2017 0

An Anti-Anti-Lachrymose Approach to Jewish History?

by contributing editor Yitzchak Schwartz In his seminal 1928 essay, “Ghetto and Emancipation: Shall We Revise the Traditional View?,” historian Salo Wittmayer Baron argues against what he refers to in his later work as the “lachrymose conception of Jewish history.”… Continue Reading →

February 22, 2017 7

Cogito ergo sumus

by contributing editor Eric Brandom As insipid slogans of dubious provenance go, “be the change you wish to see in the world” is not so bad. On a bumper sticker or the signature line of a well-meaning colleague’s email, it… Continue Reading →

February 20, 2017 0

Global History of Ideas: A Sea for Fish on Dry Land

by guest contributor Dag Herbjørnsrud

February 15, 2017 12

Historicizing Ghosts: Reimagining Realities in Nineteenth Century Popular Bengali Fiction

by guest contributors Shuvatri Dasgupta and Senjuti Jash

February 13, 2017 1

The Promise of a Technological Enlightenment: On Transhumanism and History

by guest contributor Zoltán Boldizsár Simon In the first decades of the new century, transhumanism aims at delivering the old Enlightenment promise. There can be little doubt that the aspiration to enhance (and even transcend) the capacities of the human… Continue Reading →

February 8, 2017 0

Shooting the Moon: Martyrdom and Sacred Kingship in the Twenty-First Century

by guest contributor Peter Walker On the cold afternoon of January 30, 1649, King Charles I was publicly beheaded in London, condemned as a traitor by parliamentarians. Royalists, who viewed the king as head of the church, immediately began celebrating… Continue Reading →

February 6, 2017 1

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