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Winter Reading Recommendations

See what our editors have been reading this season Jon The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators by Michael Rothberg (Stanford, 2019). Michael Rothberg’s latest book is a staggering work of genuinely intersectional theory and global memory studies. He begins… Continue Reading →

The Problem of Authorship and Pseudepigraphy in Islamic Intellectual History

by guest contributor W. Sasson Chahanovich

Experiential History

by guest contributor Tyler Rudd Putman

JHI 81:1 Now Available

The latest number of the Journal of the History of Ideas is now live on Project MUSE We are delighted to share the table of contents from volume 81, no. 1 (January 2020) of the Journal of the History of… Continue Reading →

Agneta Block’s Pineapple: Colonial Botany and the Europeanization of Knowledge

By Cindy Kok Look closely at the lower left corner of Jan Weenix’s 1693 group portrait: a pineapple grows amidst a cluster of exotic plants (Fig. 1). At first glance, Weenix’s depiction of this family suggests a familiar narrative of… Continue Reading →

Transatlantic Cooperation and the Virtues of Joint Authorship

By J. Laurence Hare and Fabian Link Studying history can be a lonely enterprise. While historians in the United States eagerly cultivate a sense of community through conferences, working groups, and edited volumes, their moments of cooperation are few and… Continue Reading →

Engaging Comedic History: Buzzfeed and the Historical Profession

by guest contributor Jake Newcomb

Démocratie dans la rue, démocratie en danger

address by Arthur Goldhammer,
translated into French by Justin Saint-Loubert-Bié

In Theory: Disha Karnad Jani interviews Durba Mitra about Indian Sex Life and Modern Social Thought

In Theory co-host Disha Karnad Jani interviews Durba Mitra, Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and Carol K. Pforzheimer Assistant Professor at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, about her new book, Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial… Continue Reading →

How to Build a Scholarly Community without Leaving Your Apartment

by guest contributor Roxanne Panchasi

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