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Postscript: The Various Afterlives of Global History

by editor Sarah Claire Dunstan

With the support of the Penn History Department and Penn SASGov, we are delighted to announce the program for our inaugural graduate symposium. All are warmly invited to attend the three panels as well as the afternoon workshops, which will… Continue Reading →

The Tortoise and the Haretics

By Guest Contributor Elizabeth Buckheit One of my favorite hypothetical games is to categorize all humanity in the vein of the adage “there are two types of people in the world.” To give a very silly example, I can say… Continue Reading →

The Pedagogy of Global History?

by editor Derek Kane O’Leary

Max Weber and Pakistan

by guest contributor Shahrukh Khan Max Weber was a reluctant modernist. He understood that the major social and political trends of the modern world were irresistible, but this understanding came with a tinge of regret. In January 1919, months after… Continue Reading →

What We’re Reading: March, Part 2

Sarah From childhood we have all been warned against ‘judging a book by its cover.’ I suppose then that I should be somewhat ashamed that I first picked up Julietta Singh’s Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements (Durham: Duke University Press, 2016) precisely… Continue Reading →

‘What Time Is It There?’: Synchronicity in Global History

by guest contributor Maryam Patton

JHIBlog Podcast: Simon Brown interviews Sophia Rosenfeld

In this interview, Simon Brown speaks with Sophia Rosenfeld, the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Rosenfeld works in the intellectual history of the trans-Atlantic Age of Revolutions, and she has written books on… Continue Reading →

What We’re Reading: March, Part 1

  Derek David W. Blight, American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011). I don’t think that the Civil War (1861-1865) has ever been quiescent in American culture and popular… Continue Reading →

What Is Global History?

by guest contributor Daoud Jackson

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