Category: The Blog
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What We’re Reading This Week
Credit: Diego Velázquez via Museo Nacional del Prado / My Modern Met Henry Jacob, University of Cambridge Michael Faciejew and Ricardo Roque, “The violence of…
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What We’re Reading This Week
Credit: Afro American Newspapers / Gado / Getty Hayley Keon, University of Hong KongE. Tammy Kim, “Apparitions: Grace M. Cho’s memoir of food and empire,”…
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What We’re Reading This Week
Credit: Fox Photos/Getty via Aeon Sean Phillips, University of Oxford Jeremy Cliffe, “The fateful chancellor,” The New Statesman A concise intellectual history and appraisal of…
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What We’re Reading This Week
Credit: Sandro Botticelli Zaib un Nisa Aziz, Yale University Thomas Meaney, “Like ordering pizza,” London Review of Books Thomas Meaney distills the meaning of the war…
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What We’re Reading This Week
Credit: Johannes Hähle via RareHistoricalPhotos.com Henry Jacob, University of Cambridge Samuel Moyn, “America is giving the world a disturbing new kind of war,” The New…
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What We Are Reading This Week
August 1991, Moscow residents read a statement by the leaders of a coup against Mikhail Gorbachev’s democratic reforms. The USSR dissolves later that year. Credit:…
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Call for applications for the first annual Toynbee Early Career Scholar Book Workshop Competition
Credit: New York Public Library Toynbee Prize Foundation First Book Workshop Competition 2022: Call for Applications The Toynbee First Book Workshop Competition aims to support…
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What We’re Reading This Week
Credit: Amir Khusrau Dihlavi via The Metropolitan Museum of Art Mahdi Chowdhury, Harvard University Isabel Hofmeyr, “Hydrocolonialism: How books travelled from colonial ports to personal…
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What We’re Reading This Week
Credit: Hubert Van Es—UPI/Newscom via Britannica.com Kristie Flannery, Australian Catholic University Keisha N. Blain, Emily Prifogle, and Karin Wulf, Women Also Know History A new…
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What We’re Reading This Week
“A girls’ school group affiliated with the Arab Ladies Union in the Musrara neighborhood of Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine.” (Kaleem Hawa) Credit: Palestine Museum US via…