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How the Nineteenth Century Misplaced the Samaritans

by guest contributor Matthew Chalmers “Are the Samaritans worth a volume of 360 pages?” Thus pondered an anonymous reviewer of James A. Montgomery’s The Samaritans: The Earliest Jewish Sect (1907). Today, specialists in Samaritan Studies are still arguing that they… Continue Reading →

Islamic History: Beyond Sunni-Shia

by guest contributor Basma N. Radwan Consider two vastly different versions of the same course “Introduction to Islamic Civilization.” In the first, an emphasis of political factors in Islamic group formation supersedes all other considerations. Shias, even before their inception… Continue Reading →

May 8, 2017 1

Time to Remember—Is There a Future to Collective Memory?

by guest contributor Nitzan Lebovic

May 5, 2017 3

Writing the History of University Coeducation

by Emily Rutherford When Yung In Chae told me that she was going to Nancy Malkiel’s book talk, I begged her to cover it for the blog. After all, my dissertation is a new, comprehensive history of coeducation in British… Continue Reading →

May 3, 2017 0

Working Through Collective Memory

by guest contributor Asaf Angermann

April 28, 2017 7

Sovereignty Without Borders: Discussing Afghanistan’s Cold War History with Timothy Nunan

Interview conducted by guest contributor Chloe Bordewich Timothy Nunan’s recent book, Humanitarian Invasion: Global Development in Cold War Afghanistan (2016), sets global Cold War history on an Afghan stage. It is not, however, the familiar story of the decade-long war… Continue Reading →

April 24, 2017 0

A Practical Past Beyond the Historical Past?

by guest contributor Sophie Marcotte Chénard

April 14, 2017 4

Towards an Intellectual History of Modern Poverty

by guest contributor Tejas Parasher In Chapter 3 of The History Manifesto, David Armitage and Jo Guldi support historians’ increasing willingness to engage with topics generally left to economists. Whereas the almost total dominance of game-theoretic modelling in economics… Continue Reading →

April 10, 2017 2

French Liberals and the Capacity for Citizenship

by guest contributor Gianna Englert 2017 has done a lot for the history of ideas. “Post-truth” politics, tyranny, nationalism, and the nature of executive power have pushed us to make sense of the present by appealing to the past. The… Continue Reading →

March 29, 2017 3

Stefan Collini’s Ford Lectures: ‘History in English criticism, 1919-1961’

by guest contributor Joshua Bennett A distinctive feature of the early years of the Cambridge English Tripos (examination system), in which close “practical criticism” of individual texts was balanced by the study of the “life, literature, and thought” surrounding them,… Continue Reading →

March 22, 2017 1

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