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Feral Frames: On occupy-able frames and expanded thresholds as mediators between the real realm and the pictorial realm

By guest contributor Zahra Safaverdi I see the status of architecture as a “domain of cultural representation” and also knowledge production. Buildings embody the notion of architecture by making physical the manifestation of space via different materials, tectonic characteristics, and… Continue Reading →

Betting and Belonging at the Candlewick Ward Club

By contributing writer Brendan Mackie Clubs were everywhere in 18th-century Britain: there were clubs for church bell ringers, clubs for masturbators, clubs for aristocratic rakes, clubs for collecting art and antiquities, Welsh cultural clubs, clubs for people named Gregory, natural… Continue Reading →

WHAT WE’RE READING: WEEK OF OCTOBER 16th

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 Robert O. Paxton, “The… Continue Reading →

Houses of Glass and Veils of Secrecy: Metaphor in Discourses of Political Publicity

By guest contributor Katlyn Marie Carter We often use metaphors and analogies to talk about politics. The legislative process, you may have heard, is akin to sausage being made. Such metaphors stand to tell us a lot about how we… 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 →

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 →

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 →

On The Pinkster King and the King of the Kongo: An Interview with Jeroen Dewulf

Interview conducted by editor Derek O’Leary Jeroen Dewulf is the Queen Beatrix Professor in Dutch Studies and an Associate Professor of German Studies at UC Berkeley, where he also directs the Institute of European Studies. His new book, The Pinkster… Continue Reading →

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