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December 6, 2019 Intellectual history / universities

From Democracy in the Streets to Democracy in Danger

In April 2019, Arthur Goldhammer delivered the following speech to the University of Chicago Democracy Initiative and Social Sciences Collegiate

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November 27, 2019 diaspora / Intellectual history / Latin America / Monuments / Museums / religious history / Spain

The myth of la llave in crypto-Jewish Poetry

By Editorial Intern Rachel Kaufman In a 1996 Sage Junior College museum exhibition entitled “Llave: A Key to the Secret,”

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November 22, 2019 Britain / Early modern Europe / French history / Intellectual history / Political history / universities

Academy and Democracy Forum: Higher Education and the Stuff of Revolutions

Over the next two months, the Journal of the History of Ideas Blog and Tocqueville 21 will co-publish commentaries in

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January 2, 2015 Intellectual history

What We’re Reading: Week of Dec. 29

Here are the editors’ picks from around the internet this week. Please add other pieces of interest to intellectual historians in the

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January 1, 2015 Conferences

History of Ideas at the AHA

by Emily Rutherford JHIBlog readers attending the American Historical Association Annual Meeting might be interested in the following sessions, just

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December 31, 2014 Think pieces

The History Manifesto and Its Discontents

by Emily Rutherford David Armitage and Jo Guldi published their History Manifesto online and in print in October, and since

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December 31, 2014 Think pieces

What Does Early Modern Bibliography Have To Do with a Blog?

by Madeline McMahon Conrad Gesner’s 1545 Bibliotheca universalis was a powerful tool for managing information. Like a Wikipedia dedicated solely

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December 30, 2014 Intellectual history

Welcome to JHIBlog!

Welcome to the blog of the Journal of the History of Ideas. We are excited to bring together today’s varied,

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