What We’re Reading: April 23

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 →

April 23, 2016 0

Historicizing Failure

by guest contributor Disha Jani Making meaning out of the past requires sifting: turning flotsam and jetsam into units of time and entities of subjecthood. One of the most basic ways in which historians sift is with beginnings and ends… Continue Reading →

Dressing Up in Late Antique Egypt: A Review of ISAW’s ‘Designing Identity’

by contributing editor Jake Purcell One of the joys of being in New York is the relative plethora of late-antique objects scattered throughout the city. The Met does not exactly have a late antique room, but, in a corridor gallery… Continue Reading →

April 18, 2016 1

What We’re Reading: April 16

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 →

April 16, 2016 0

2016 Lovejoy Lecture: Joyce E. Chaplin, “Can the Nonhuman Speak?”

Can the Nonhuman Speak? Breaking the Chain of Being in the Anthropocene a lecture by Joyce E. Chaplin A syllogism: 1. The environmental crises that go under the name of the Anthropocene represent the most important problems of our generation…. Continue Reading →

April 15, 2016 1

Of Nuance and Algorithms: What Conceptual History Can Learn from Topic Modeling

by contributing editor Daniel London

April 13, 2016 1

Reading for Pleasure and Shelf-Satisfaction: The Reading Sheffield Oral History Project

by guest contributor Elizabeth Ott Debates about the proper function of public libraries—what readers they should serve, what kinds of reading they should promote, what sorts of books should stock their shelves and (perhaps most importantly) how those books and… Continue Reading →

April 11, 2016 1

What We’re Reading: April 9

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 →

April 9, 2016 0

Humanism in the Archives: The Case of Ellesmere MS EL 34 B 6

by guest contributor Elizabeth Biggs I’m sorry not to have been at the Renaissance Society of America Conference in Boston this last weekend. In the spirit of that conference, I want to introduce you to a wonderful renaissance manuscript currently… Continue Reading →

April 4, 2016 0