What We’re Reading: Week of Jan. 26

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! John: Pierre Assouline, « Johann Chapoutot engage… Continue Reading →

January 31, 2015 0

Arthur Sidgwick’s Diaries: Notes from a Work in Progress

by Emily Rutherford This image (click for full size) is a page from the diary of a man called Arthur Sidgwick, who lived from 1840 to 1920 and who taught ancient Greek first at an elite private secondary school and… Continue Reading →

Records of Student Life in Early Modern Europe

by Madeline McMahon Much of student life in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe revolved around writing in books. Unlike modern library copies of frequently assigned texts or even students’ personal copies (such as this outraged copy of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter… Continue Reading →

January 28, 2015 0

Thucydides, Canon, and Western Civilization

by Emily Rutherford Columbia University, where I study, is one of very few American colleges where all undergraduates are required to complete a sequence of survey courses in western civilization. Many history graduate students eventually teach in the Core sequence,… Continue Reading →

January 26, 2015 0

What We’re Reading: Week of Jan. 19

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! Madeline: Nina Martyris, Auden, Rabelais and Charlie Hebdo… Continue Reading →

January 24, 2015 0

Curing Vichy Syndrome

by John Raimo Historiography can sometimes seem like a zero-sum game. New facts come to light and old politics set different lines of battle. One school of thought supersedes another, or at least vociferously claims to do so turning and… Continue Reading →

January 23, 2015 0

The Gay Past and the Intellectual Historian

by Emily Rutherford In the papers this week was the news (slow, it seems, to come to the mainstream media’s attention) that, thanks to a Kickstarter campaign, University of British Columbia graduate student Justin O’Hearn helped to fund the UBC… Continue Reading →

January 21, 2015 0

Making German history safe

by John Raimo Can a museum exhibition curate itself? So far as concerns history, the answer would seem to be not quite. Here I am referring to Neil MacGregor’s work at the British Museum, namely Germany: Memories of a Nation—A… Continue Reading →

January 19, 2015 0

Neoliberal Dogma? Revisiting Foucault on Social Security, Healthcare, and Autonomy (Pt. II of II)

by guest contributor Luca Provenzano Earlier, I discussed claims that the French philosopher Michel Foucault anticipated or deployed neoliberal dogmas about social security in an interview in 1983. I now consider Foucault’s assertions about health and healthcare in the same… Continue Reading →

January 16, 2015 0

What We’re Reading: Week of Jan. 12

Here are a few interesting articles and pieces we found around the web this week. If we missed something that other intellectual historians might enjoy, please let us know in the comments! John: Roberto Gilodi, Germania anno zero (Doppiozero) Jeet… Continue Reading →

January 16, 2015 0

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