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What We’re Reading: Week of August 28th

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! John: “Freedom Force: The French Resistance”… Continue Reading →

From and for the Republic of Letters

The JHI Blog welcomes pitches for guest posts from across the world and across the republic of letters. Our readers will also know that we’ve happily branched out into reviews of conferences, public lectures, and exhibitions. We would like to… Continue Reading →

August Boeckh in the 21st Century: Methodological Questions for Globalized Classics

by guest contributor Colin Guthrie King August Boeckh (1785–1867) is in a certain sense the great unknown classicist of the nineteenth century. Boeckh was professor eloquentiae et poeseos (“of rhetoric and composition”) at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität of Berlin (today’s Humboldt-Universität) from… Continue Reading →

What We’re Reading: Week of August 20th

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! John: Essay: “The Unquiet Past” (The… Continue Reading →

When was the age of information?

By Paul Duguid My principal connection to the field of history is through an undergraduate course I co-teach called “History of Information.” It’s a course that seeks to take students from Lascaux to WhatsApp and beyond in fifteen weeks: its… Continue Reading →

What We’re Reading: Week of August 10

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: Rachel Ahern Knudson, “Fanfiction in… Continue Reading →

Reflections on “Treasured Possessions” and Material Culture

by Madeline McMahon “Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment,” an exhibit at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, folds the viewer into the fabric of life in early modern Europe. Street venders hawked their fare and pharmacists displayed their… Continue Reading →

What We’re Reading: Week of August 3

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: Sarah Werner, “How to destroy… Continue Reading →

Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading in the Archive (II)

by Emily Rutherford Last week, I wrote about how easy it is to become paranoid in the Victorian archive—that is, how reading against the grain in search of sexuality can overwhelm other routes to understanding and, perhaps, more interesting and… Continue Reading →

JHI 76:3 Available / What We’re Reading: Week of July 27

We’re happy to announce that the July issue of the Journal of the History of Ideas is now available at Project Muse. The table of contents is below, and we will be featuring some posts from this issue’s authors in… Continue Reading →

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