This week we say goodbye to founding blog editor Madeline McMahon, who is heading on to new projects. We’ll miss her, but you can follow her on Twitter to keep up with her activities. Here are a few interesting articles… Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Jane Raisch The difficulties of printing Greek are something of a refrain amongst its earliest printers. “Anyone who criticizes me is quite unjust and ungrateful,” the acclaimed printer of the classics, Aldus Manutius, complained in the preface… 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. Madeline: Robert F. Worth, “In the… Continue Reading →
by contributing editor Carolyn Taratko “Vegetarianism is not only a question of the stomach but also one of society.” This may sound familiar to readers, as articles such as “Eat less meat to avoid dangerous global warming, scientists say” grace… Continue Reading →
Emily: Jo Livingstone and David Wolf, Can the Academic Write? (Awl) Alec Macgillis and Propublica, The Despair of Poor White Americans (Atlantic) Gurminder K. Bhambra, Brexit, Class, and British ‘National’ Identity (Discover Society) Madeleine Schwartz, Dressing for the King (NYRB)… Continue Reading →
by contributing editor Jake Purcell Several people have said to me that I would have made a good medieval monk. I never asked why: mostly out of self-preservation, but also because I’m fairly confident that they are wrong. I like… 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. Emily: Historians of Britain, British Empire,… Continue Reading →
The editors at the Journal of the History of Ideas are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2015 Morris D. Forkosch Prize for the best first book in intellectual history is Mark Greif, for his The Age of… Continue Reading →
by Erin McGuirl Whose stories are told in museums? And how are they told? “The Keeper,” an ongoing show at the New Museum that is a tonic to the eye and the soul, addresses these questions and raises even more… 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. Emily: This week’s required reading: Nakul… Continue Reading →
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