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JHI 81.2 Now Available and Free to Access

The latest number of the Journal of the History of Ideas (April 2020, 81.2) is now live on Project MUSE and free to access for any reader.

“It’s Coming Back Around Again”: Rage Against The Machine as Radical Historians

by guest contributor Jake Newcomb

Believing in Witches and Demons

by guest contributor Jan Machielsen

In Theory: Disha Karnad Jani interviews Vincent Brown about Tacky’s Revolt and Atlantic Slave War

by co-host Disha Karnad Jani

In Theory: Simon Brown interviews Alexander Zevin about the World according to the Economist

by co-host Simon Brown

What the Digital Dark Age Can Teach Us About Ancient Technologies of Writing

by guest contributors Sara Mohr and Edward C. Williams

In Theory: Simon Brown interviews K. Healan Gaston about Judeo-Christian America

by co-host Simon Brown

History and Podcasting: Sarah Pickman interviews Michael Robinson

by guest contributor Sarah Pickman

Gnosticism in Postwar German Philosophy: An Interview with Willem Styfhals

Willem Styfhals is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Philosophy at KU Leuven, Belgium, and the author of the new book No Spiritual Investment in the World: Gnosticism and Postwar German Philosophy (Cornell, 2019; see Amazon and JSTOR). Bridging… Continue Reading →

Genres of Math: Arithmetic, Algebra, and Algorithms in Ancient Egyptian Mathematics

By contributing author E.L. Meszaros As non-native readers of Egyptian hieratic and hieroglyphics, our understanding of the mathematics recorded in these languages must necessarily go through a process of translation. Such translation is both necessary to allow us to study… Continue Reading →

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