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WHAT WE’RE READING: WEEK OF OCTOBER 9TH

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. Eric: “Europe Slams Its Gates” (Foreign… Continue Reading →

The Difficulties of Addressing Memories of Communism

By guest contributor Ilana Seelinger Whenever you try to teach communist history, you run into the same issue: how do you address the conflicting memories of a contested past? When you’re talking about communism in a country that experienced it,… Continue Reading →

The Suffrage Postcard Project: A Replica Archive

by guest contributor Ana Stevenson At the 2017 Australian Historical Association Conference, in a panel about digital history, Professor Victoria Haskins discussed what she described as a “replica archive.”  Haskins’ research is concerned with Indigenous domestic servants in Australia and… Continue Reading →

What We’re Reading: Week of October 2nd

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. Spencer Bruce Gordon (ed.), “The Protestant… Continue Reading →

The First of Nisan, The Forgotten Jewish New Year, Part II

By guest contributor Joel S. Davidi In my last post on the history of the first of Nisan as a Jewish new year I discussed the history of this now mostly forgotten holiday into the tenth century. Until this point, this… Continue Reading →

Violence, Intimate and Public, in Bel-Ami’s Republic

By Contributing Editor Eric Brandom Mme Forestier, who was playing with a knife, added: –Yes…yes…it is good to be loved… And she seemed to press her dream further, to think of things she dared not say. These are lines from a… Continue Reading →

What We’re Reading: Week of 25th September

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.   Cynthia Moths have been on… Continue Reading →

Melodrama in Disguise: The Case of the Victorian Novel

By guest contributor Jacob Romanow When people call a book “melodramatic,” they usually mean it as an insult. Melodrama is histrionic, implausible, and (therefore) artistically subpar—a reviewer might use the term to suggest that serious readers look elsewhere. Victorian novels,… Continue Reading →

You Should Learn Descriptive Bibliography

By editor Erin McGuirl This summer, I spent a week at Rare Book School at the University of Virginia doing something new and I loved it. I was a newcomer to a group of Lab Instructors guiding students through a… Continue Reading →

What We’re Reading: Week of 18th September

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. Eric Emile Chabal, “Les anglo-saxons” (Aeon)…. Continue Reading →

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