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A conversation with Prof. Surekha Davies: From our occasional podcast series

In our inaugural podcast, Contributing Editor Cynthia Houng speaks with Prof. Surekha Davies about her book, Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters (Cambridge University Press, 2016), winner of the 2016 Morris D. Forkosch… Continue Reading →

Participant Observers: An Interview with Freddy Foks

By Tingfeng Yan

“Brilliantly Devised, Grossly Packaged Confusion”: Eames’s “World of Franklin & Jefferson” Exhibition and Reclaiming Revolution during America’s Post-Traumatic Decade

by guest contributor Thomas Cryer

Race, Rights, and Reform: An Interview with Sarah C. Dunstan

by editor Anne Schult

Breathing Life into Black Intellectual History

by guest contributor Ashley Farmer

Marginalia: Notes on the Teachable Moment

by guest contributor Nile Davies

Empire of Abstraction: British Social Anthropology in the “Dependencies”

by guest contributor Nile A. Davies

Reading Recommendations: Pandemics Past and Present

Classic books and recent essays that have helped us understand pandemics in the past and present.

What we’re reading this week

Sundry readings from our editorial team this week: AJ: Alina Cohen, “The Legendary Bars Where Famous Artists Drank, Debated, and Made Art History” (Artsy) Lungisile Ntsebeza, “This Land is Our Land” (Foreign Policy) Ronald Brownstein, “American Higher Education Hits a… Continue Reading →

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 →

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