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Category: Atlantic history

May 30, 2019 Atlantic history / Britain / companion piece / empire / JHI / nationalism / political theory / Think pieces / US history

Return of the King? Monarchy in American Thought

By Zach Bates This is a companion essay to the author’s “The Idea of Royal Empire and the Imperial Crown

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November 14, 2018 Atlantic history / history of science / Think pieces

John Parkinson and the Rise of Botany in the 17th Century

By Guest Contributor Molly Nebiolo The roots of contemporary botany have been traced back to the botanical systems laid out

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October 15, 2018 Atlantic history / book history / Monuments / Scandinavia / US history

Norse fantasies and American foundings

By Editor Derek Kane O’Leary The monumental, bronze face of Leif Erikson gazes westward from Boston’s Commonwealth Avenue toward the

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March 7, 2018 Atlantic history / Think pieces

The Problem of Democracy: Radical Political Traditions in the Revolutions of 1848

By guest contributor Pamela C. Nogales C. Prompted by the experience of the second world war, historian Lewis Namier described

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February 21, 2018 Atlantic history / Think pieces / US history

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, New England, and hemispheric visions

By Editor Derek Kane O’Leary American sculptor Bela Pratt imagined the above statue in 1916, but it was never built.

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February 12, 2018 art history / Atlantic history / Book reviews / podcast

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

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