Metahistory – Page 7

Thucydides, Canon, and Western Civilization

by Emily Rutherford Columbia University, where I study, is one of very few American colleges where all undergraduates are required to complete a sequence of survey courses in western civilization. Many history graduate students eventually teach in the Core sequence,… Continue Reading →

Curing Vichy Syndrome

by John Raimo Historiography can sometimes seem like a zero-sum game. New facts come to light and old politics set different lines of battle. One school of thought supersedes another, or at least vociferously claims to do so turning and… Continue Reading →

January 23, 2015 0

Making German history safe

by John Raimo Can a museum exhibition curate itself? So far as concerns history, the answer would seem to be not quite. Here I am referring to Neil MacGregor’s work at the British Museum, namely Germany: Memories of a Nation—A… Continue Reading →

January 19, 2015 0

The Politics of Unearthing New Amsterdam in 19th-Century New York

by Madeline McMahon John Romeyn Brodhead was fascinated by a city beneath his feet that he felt could only be dug up and discovered in the archives of the Old World. New Amsterdam, and its fraught transformation into New York,… Continue Reading →

January 14, 2015 0

Back in the Sattel(zeit) again

by John Raimo Where does the historian Reinhart Koselleck (1923-2006) stand in intellectual history today? Among his readers, Koselleck remains a preeminent theorist of historical time and historiography, an innovative figure in ‘conceptual history’ (Begriffsgeschichte), and an accomplished historian in… Continue Reading →

January 9, 2015 0

Reflections of an AHA First-Timer

by Emily Rutherford The modern conference resembles the pilgrimage of medieval Christendom in that it allows the participants to indulge themselves in all the pleasures and diversions of travel while appearing to be austerely bent on self-improvement. To be sure,… Continue Reading →

January 6, 2015 0

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 then the critiques have begun to roll in. There has been plenty of chatter on Twitter and an interesting set… Continue Reading →

December 31, 2014 0

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