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Histories of Tithes: Religious Controversy and Changing Methodologies

by Madeline McMahon In December 1618, the talented scholar John Selden was called before King James to answer for the publication of his Historie of tithes (London: William Stansby, 1618). Selden’s work on tithes (literally, the “tenth” of all goods… Continue Reading →

Mobility in Context and the Global Intellectual

by Maryam Patton If ideas are the most migratory things in the world, as Arthur O. Lovejoy suggested in 1940, then why have intellectual historians proven less eager to adopt the precepts of global history in comparison to their colleagues… Continue Reading →

What We’re Reading: Week of Feb. 9

Madeline: Francine Prose, “The Case for Hollywood History” (NYRB) Darryl Pinckney, “Some Different Ways of Looking at Selma” (NYRB) Juan-Jacques Aupiais, An Interview with P. Adams Sitney (Nassau Literary Review) Jonathan Wilson, Bernard Cooper on art and life (LARB) Rhiannon… Continue Reading →

The Sounds of History

by John Raimo So far as writing history goes, the British historian G.M. Young wrote, “The secret is to treat every document as the record of a conversation, and go on reading till you hear the people speaking.” This characterization… Continue Reading →

Annotations and Generations (II)

by guest contributor Frederic Clark Adam Winthrop died in 1623—seven years before his son John would board the Arbella and sail to Massachusetts. John Winthrop’s son, John Jr., was studying abroad at Trinity College Dublin at the time. His father… Continue Reading →

Annotations and Generations

by guest contributor Frederic Clark The history of reading has recently witnessed an explosion of interest, doing much to transform and reinvigorate the practice of intellectual history. Although recent histories of reading range across every conceivable genre and period, early… Continue Reading →

What We’re Reading: Week of Feb. 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! Emily: Elizabeth Kolbert, The Man to Know… Continue Reading →

JHI 76:1 Now Available Online

We’re pleased to note that the January 2015 issue of the Journal of the History of Ideas (volume 76 issue 1) is now available at Project Muse, with the print edition sent out to subscribers shortly. As you’ll see from… Continue Reading →

Intellectuals on Toboggans

by Emily Rutherford For the sake of some midweek levity, and in honor of the weather across much of northern North America at the moment, here are some pictures of intellectuals and educators enjoying the snow: As comical as these… Continue Reading →

Would you like your history slanderous or boring?

by guest contributor Caio Ferreira “A journal, sir, is no more a history than materials are a house.” Voltaire wrote this to the historian Jöran Andersson Nordberg, chaplain of king Charles XII of Sweden, in 1744. They respond assertively to… Continue Reading →

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