by guest contributor Monique Flores Ulysses Growing up as the child of a Mexican mother, when I heard Alejandro Fernández’s rendition of the popular corrido “Paso del norte” blasting out of our old speakers on a Saturday morning, I knew… Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Jamie Phillips At a meeting of the Society of Psychoneurologists-Materialists in Moscow in 1930, the Chairman of the Society, Aron Zalkind, appraised the current the state of their field in the Soviet Union, and spoke in particular… Continue Reading →
Emily: Sam Tanenhaus, Rise of the Reactionary, on the history of the American right (New Yorker) Olivia Robinson and Alison Moulds, Women in Oxford’s History, a new podcast Jaime Cantrell, Out of the Closet, Into the Archives: Researching Sexual Histories… Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Charles Cuykendall Carter The New York Society Library’s current pop-up exhibit explores the life and experiences of Herman Melville in New York City, during the time leading up to the 1851 publication of Moby-Dick. The more specific,… Continue Reading →
by contributing editor Brooke Palmieri It would make an amazing opening sequence to a film: the camera catches the glint of chrome, leather, motorcycle, boots, asphalt. A helmet is secured, and a stack of books and belongings piled onto the… Continue Reading →
Emily: This week’s must-read, for college teachers especially: Eli Saslow, The white flight of Derek Black (Washington Post) An amazing documentary about women in Saudi Arabia, with fascinating echoes of nineteenth-century Britain: Mona El-Naggar, ‘Ladies First’: Saudi Arabia’s Female Candidates… Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Daniel Joslyn In his most famous speech, “Self-Made Men,” written in 1854, and performed for the rest of his life, Frederick Douglass contends that: “from the various dregs of society, there come men who may well be… Continue Reading →
Emily: Susan Pedersen reviews Robert Vitalis: Destined to Disappear: ‘Race Studies’ (LRB) Tamson Pietsch, Great Gatsby Gap Year (Cap and Gown) Heather Ellis, Grammar Schools: Taking the Long View (History Matters, University of Sheffield) Stefan Collini, How to Be Ourselves:… Continue Reading →
By Jan Stöckmann On 16 January 1926, a group of statesmen, diplomats, and civil servants gathered in Paris to celebrate the inauguration of the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation at its grand premises in the Palais Royal. Wine was served,… Continue Reading →
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