Category What We’re Reading

Emily: Jim Farber, Before the Stonewall Uprising, There Was the ‘Sip-In’ (NY Times) Marissa Brostoff, Where the Boys Are, on Bernie Sanders, gender and politics (n+1) Rachel L. Swarns, 272 Slaves Were Sold to Save Georgetown. What Does It Owe… Continue Reading →

Emily: Matthew Pratt Guterl, The Irish Rebellion that Resonated in Harlem (TNR) Anne Boyd Rioux, Women Writers You Should Know: Constance Fenimore Woolson (The Toast) Rohan Maitzen, What We’re (Really) Talking About When We Talk About “Time to Read” (Novel… Continue Reading →

Emily: I had an ambivalent response to G.W. Bowersock, The Classics: A Subtle New View (NYRB) Jonathan Freedland, Maggie and the Storm over Europe (NYRB) Jonathan Downing, Prophecy and the Southcottian ‘Canon’ (Southcottian Studies) Free Thinking: Evelyn Waugh (BBC Radio… Continue Reading →

Emily: Lord Byron and the Hebrew Melodies (In Our Time, BBC Radio 4) Jake McAuley, They were rescued as kids in WWII. Now they want to help today’s refugee children. (Washington Post) Daniel Hope, My mentor Yehudi Menuhin (Guardian) Ferdinant… Continue Reading →

Emily: Amia Srinivasan, Under Rhodes (LRB) ‘This doubtful day of feast or fast’: Good Friday and the Annunciation (A Clerk of Oxford) Tom Crewe, Aubade Before Breakfast: Balfour and the Souls (LRB) Eric Weitz, Weimar America? (Common Dreams) Sarah Scullin,… Continue Reading →

Emily: Amit Chaudhuri, The Real Meaning of Rhodes Must Fall (Guardian) David Mitchell, The Trouble with People Who Lived in the Past (Guardian) Andrew Dickson, Great Britain, Strange and Familiar (New Yorker) David W. Dunlap, Discovery of Burial Ground Backs… Continue Reading →

Emily: John Sutherland, George Orwell’s master – and spymaster? (TLS) — plenty of problems with its treatment of homoeroticism in English single-sex education, but worth reading all the same In other “British homosexuality history is unexpectedly relevant” news, shades of… Continue Reading →

Emily: Timothy Garton Ash, Rhodes hasn’t fallen, but the protesters are making me rethink Britain’s past (Guardian) Cara Delay, Flowers and Lady Charlotte: Talking about Menstruation, Past and Present Lida Maxwell, Does Love Have a Politics? (LARB) Dana Goldstein, Sterilization’s… Continue Reading →

Emily: Our friends at the Paideia Institute are hiring interns! Worth checking out if you’re an undergrad or recent grad in particular. Nakul Krishna, Bringing Philosophy to Life, on Bernard Williams, Oxford philosophy, and much more (Chronicle) Sophia Azeb, Can… Continue Reading →

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! Madeline: Sheila Fitzpatrick, “Zanchevsky, Zakrevsky, or… Continue Reading →