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The latest number of the Journal of the History of Ideas is now live on Project MUSE We are delighted to share the table of contents from volume 81, no. 1 (January 2020) of the Journal of the History of… Continue Reading →
By Cindy Kok Look closely at the lower left corner of Jan Weenix’s 1693 group portrait: a pineapple grows amidst a cluster of exotic plants (Fig. 1). At first glance, Weenix’s depiction of this family suggests a familiar narrative of… Continue Reading →
By J. Laurence Hare and Fabian Link Studying history can be a lonely enterprise. While historians in the United States eagerly cultivate a sense of community through conferences, working groups, and edited volumes, their moments of cooperation are few and… Continue Reading →
In Theory co-host Disha Karnad Jani interviews Durba Mitra, Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and Carol K. Pforzheimer Assistant Professor at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, about her new book, Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial… Continue Reading →
John Raimo, a founding editor of the JHI Blog and PhD candidate at New York University, interviews Professor Gisèle Sapiro, director of research at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique and the director of studies at the École des… Continue Reading →
Brendan Mackie, a contributing editor for the JHI Blog and the host of “The Making of a Historian” podcast, speaks with Professor Joshua Fogel of York University about his book A Friend in Deed: Lu Xun, Uchiyama Kanzō, and the… Continue Reading →
In Theory co-host Disha Karnad Jani interviews Christopher Cameron, Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, about his new book Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism (Northwestern University Press, 2019).
by guest contributor Dr. Cat Moir It is difficult to talk about utopia and be taken seriously today. The utopian imagination—that mode of consciousness that envisions ultimate states of humanity or society, whether near-perfect or post-catastrophic—is everywhere in popular culture,… Continue Reading →
We’re taking a brief hiatus from our usual publishing schedule during this last week of 2019, but we’ll be back with the New Year. Until then, here are some of our most popular posts from the past year. Happy Holidays,… Continue Reading →
