Conceptual History

“Good men are God in the flesh” : Frederick Douglass, Virtue Philosopher

by guest contributor Daniel Joslyn In his most famous speech, “Self-Made Men,” written in 1854, and performed for the rest of his life, Frederick Douglass contends that: “from the various dregs of society, there come men who may well be… Continue Reading →

2016/10/17 3

Anti-Imperialist Publications and Suspended Disbelief: Reading the Public Materials of the League Against Imperialism, 1927-1937

by guest contributor Disha Karnad Jani “Why We Appear”: so begins the September-October 1931 issue of the Anti-Imperialist Review, the official journal of the League Against Imperialism and for National Independence (LAI). This organization was founded in 1927 and brought… Continue Reading →

2016/09/28 1

Cheek Rending, Bodies, and Rape in Medieval Castile, c. 1050-1300

by guest contributor Rachel Q. Welsh In medieval Castile, between about 1050 and 1300, local municipal lawcodes, or fueros, looked to the body for proof of rape. These fueros provided detailed and practical sets of laws and privileges to newly… Continue Reading →

2016/09/21 2

Solidarity, Fragmentation, and Welfare

by contributing editor Daniel London

2016/07/27 2

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 →

2016/04/20 1

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

by contributing editor Daniel London

2016/04/13 1

The Methodology of Genealogy: How to Trace the History of an Idea

by guest contributor Yung In Chae We all know the story of Man the Hunter: thousands of years ago, cavemen went out and hunted food for cavewomen and cavechildren, who sat idly at home and depended on this masculine feat… Continue Reading →

2016/03/07 2

Towards a Global Intellectual History?

by guest contributor Sarah Dunstan Speaking of the emerging calls for transnational and global intellectual history in a 2011 article, David Armitage wrote that ‘[w]hat is certain is that the possibilities for such a global history – or even for… Continue Reading →

2016/02/08 5

Coming to Agreement: The State of Urban Public Life in American History

by contributing editor Daniel London

2016/01/20 0

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 →

2015/08/17 2

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“Good men are God in the flesh” : Frederick Douglass, Virtue Philosopher

Anti-Imperialist Publications and Suspended Disbelief: Reading the Public Materials of the League Against Imperialism, 1927-1937

Cheek Rending, Bodies, and Rape in Medieval Castile, c. 1050-1300

Solidarity, Fragmentation, and Welfare

Historicizing Failure

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

The Methodology of Genealogy: How to Trace the History of an Idea

Towards a Global Intellectual History?

Coming to Agreement: The State of Urban Public Life in American History

When was the age of information?

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