Category: The Blog
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What We’re Reading This Week
Nuevo Cocinero Mejicano, 1872 (Source: Pazzo Books) Joseph SatishEhsan Masood, “How China is redrawing the map of world science” , Nature Zoe Jackson, “ARPANET and the Development of…
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What We’re Reading This Week
Jean-Pascal Sébah, Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar, 1890s (Source: Wikipedia Commons) James Parker Kapil Komireddi, “Five More Years of Narendra Modi Will Take India to a Dark…
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CFP: “(Forced) Migration and Large-Scale Settlement” (Dresden, April 2020)
As world politics continue to revolve around questions and controversies concerning refugees and migration, historians have begun to pay increasing attention to earlier forms of…
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What We’re Reading This Week
Madeleine Albright and Richard Holbrooke, 1996 (Source: AFP/Getty Images) Liat Spiro Yuliya Komska, “In Search of an Anti-Fascist Language,” Boston Review Jan-Werner Müller, “Populism and the…
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What We’re Reading This Week
Hannah Arendt (Source: Wikimedia Commons) Matthew Bowser Stephen Kinzer, “Inside Iran’s Fury“, Smithsonian Magazine Soutik Biswas, “India election 2019: How sugar influences the world’s biggest…
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What We’re Reading This Week
Diego Rivera, Agrarian Leader Zapata, 1931 (Source: MOMA) Sean Phillips David Edgerton, “A misremembered Empire“, Tortoise Media Heidi Tworek, “Information Warfare is Here to Stay”,…
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What We’re Reading This Week
Street Scene in Cairo, December 1919 (Source: Tulipe Noire) Joseph Satish Robert P. Crease, “The rise and fall of scientific authority — and how to bring…
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What We’re Reading This Week
Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Winter Scene with a Bird-trap, 1601 (Source: Wikipedia Commons) Joshua Milstein Susan Pedersen, “I Want to Love It” [Review of Richard…
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What We’re Reading This Week
L’impératrice Joséphine (1805), Pierre-Paul Prud’hon, Musée du Louvres Natalie Behrends Nara Schoenberg, “‘It’s a woman. It’s not Pulaski,'” Chicago Tribune Mark Ellis, “The Kaiser’s Trial,” LA Review of Books…
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What We’re Reading This Week
John Gast:, American Progress, 1872 (Source: Wikipedia) Collin Bernard Christopher Clark, “Why should we think about the Revolutions of 1848 now?” LRB Jedediah Britton-Purdy, “Infinite…