What We’re Reading: Week of September 7

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: Eric Aeschlmann, « Hannah Arendt… Continue Reading →

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Global Microhistory: One or Two Things That I Know About It

by guest contributor Maryam Patton Where does the local fabric of human life stand in the great heights of global history? Consider Jürgen Osterhammel’s discussion of travel literature and the growth of exploration in his titanic The Transformation of the… Continue Reading →

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What We’re Reading: Week of September 4th

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: Italo Calvino, “The Movies of… Continue Reading →

2015/09/04 0

Is There a Philosophy of History Today?

By guest contributor Zoltán Boldizsár Simon Is there a philosophy of history today? By this I mean a classical philosophy of history, a philosophy of history understood as the course of events. Because there certainly is philosophy of history understood… Continue Reading →

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What We’re Reading: Week of August 28th

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: “Freedom Force: The French Resistance”… Continue Reading →

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From and for the Republic of Letters

The JHI Blog welcomes pitches for guest posts from across the world and across the republic of letters. Our readers will also know that we’ve happily branched out into reviews of conferences, public lectures, and exhibitions. We would like to… Continue Reading →

2015/08/27 0

August Boeckh in the 21st Century: Methodological Questions for Globalized Classics

by guest contributor Colin Guthrie King August Boeckh (1785–1867) is in a certain sense the great unknown classicist of the nineteenth century. Boeckh was professor eloquentiae et poeseos (“of rhetoric and composition”) at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität of Berlin (today’s Humboldt-Universität) from… Continue Reading →

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What We’re Reading: Week of August 20th

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: Essay: “The Unquiet Past” (The… Continue Reading →

2015/08/21 0

When was the age of information?

By Paul Duguid My principal connection to the field of history is through an undergraduate course I co-teach called “History of Information.” It’s a course that seeks to take students from Lascaux to WhatsApp and beyond in fifteen weeks: its… Continue Reading →

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What We’re Reading: Week of August 10

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: Rachel Ahern Knudson, “Fanfiction in… Continue Reading →

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