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What We’re Reading: Week of Jan. 9

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. Emily: Our very own Erin McGuirl,… Continue Reading →

History of Ideas at AHA2016

by Jake Purcell and Emily Rutherford For the second year, your trusty blog editors have combed through the behemoth that is the AHA Annual Meeting’s program in search of panels and events related to intellectual history. JHIBlog readers attending the… Continue Reading →

Thinking with the Hand: Andrea del Sarto and the Practice of Drawing

by guest contributor Cynthia Houng “So the point of my keeping a notebook has never been, nor is it now, to have a factual record of what I have been doing or thinking. That would be a different impulse entirely,… Continue Reading →

What We’re Reading: Week of Jan. 2

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: Jonathan Rée, on James Harris’s… Continue Reading →

Happy New Year from JHIBlog!

This time last year, we editors were nervously putting the finishing touches on our design for JHIBlog, and writing posts so that there would be something on the website. We launched on January 1, 2015: what a year it’s been!… Continue Reading →

Asking the Social Question

by guest contributor Steven McClellan What’s in a name? When I began thinking about writing a dissertation on the history of the Verein für Sozialpolitik (Association for Social Policy), I assumed that the largest problem would be related to the… Continue Reading →

What We’re Reading: Week of Dec. 12

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. Emily: Peter Mandler, The humanities are… Continue Reading →

Woodrow Wilson and the Politics of Race: Notes on an Ongoing Controversy

by guest contributor Georgios Giannakopoulos The wave of student protests for racial tolerance and university reform in America recently crashed against the name of Woodrow Wilson. The eagerness to address Wilson’s racism prompted a discussion about his political legacy and… Continue Reading →

Haunting History

by contributing editor Brooke Palmieri Even Thucydides, the celebrated father of historical realism, found it impossible to avoid revising the past in the telling of it. “With reference to the speeches in this history,” he writes in the opening to… Continue Reading →

What We’re Reading: Week of Dec. 5th

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: Gary Wills, “Splendors of the… Continue Reading →

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