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Solidarity, Fragmentation, and Welfare

by contributing editor Daniel London

What We’re Reading, July 16th-22nd

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: Jonathan Blitzer, “A Tale of… Continue Reading →

Claude Eatherly, the Bomb, and the Atomic Age

by contributing editor Carolyn Taratko In late May, President Obama laid a wreath at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, making him the first sitting U.S. President to visit the city that was the target of the first atomic bomb on August… Continue Reading →

What We’re Reading, July 9th-15th

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. John: Helen Andrews, “The New Ruling… Continue Reading →

Images of history

by John Raimo As often as historians and art historians talk past one another, they also come together before common problems, questions, and sources. Both groups recognize the sheer power of images. Such a moment has reappeared in intellectual history…. Continue Reading →

What We’re Reading: July 2nd-8th

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: Henrik Bering, “The master propagandist”… Continue Reading →

Fortune. Failure. Fetish. Fest. Aby Warburg’s glorious Nachleben

by guest contributor Dina Gusejnova Aby Warburg (1866-1929), the philosopher of culture, art historian and psychopathologist of modernity extraordinaire, famously described himself as an “Amburghese di cuore, ebreo di sangue, d’anima Fiorentino.” Having renounced the inheritance of his father’s bank,… Continue Reading →

Malthus Redivivus/Malthus Revisited

by guest contributor E.G. Gallwey In the history of ideas, the rate of population growth or decline has carried strong associations with the trajectories of societies and states. The eighteenth-century writer Thomas Robert Malthus’s principle of population has set the… Continue Reading →

What We’re Reading: June 25th – July 1st

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: Mary Beard, “Power to the… Continue Reading →

Félix de Azara: Drawn from Life

by guest contributor Anna Toledano Decades before Darwin set out on his voyage on the H.M.S. Beagle, Félix de Azara (1742–1821) observed many of the same species of animals and plants that the famed Englishman would see during his journey…. Continue Reading →

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