Image credit: Foreign Policy … Joshua Milstein … Christoph Schneider, "Concrete Metaphysics and the Visual Image", Los Angeles Review of Books … Review of a new monograph on the aesthetic philosophy of the Russian intellectual Pavel Florensky.
Zaib un Nisa Aziz … Jill Lepore, The History of the “Riot” Report, The New Yorker … Lepore examines the history of government commissions investigating organized resistance and shows how they became 'albis for inaction'. … Annette Gordon-Reed…
TOPSHOT - People coming from Venezuela with protective face masks as a precautionary measure to avoid contracting the new coronavirus, COVID-19, show hold their documents on the border at Simon Bolivar International Bridge, in Cucuta, Colombia, on March 12, 2020. - Colombia declared on March 12…
Since its publication in 2016, Sebastian Conrad’s What Is Global History? has been read and debated not only by historians of modern Europe but also by historians of different parts of the world and scholars in different disciplines. Who writes global history? How and for whom? And why now?
The 1918–1919 "Spanish flu" pandemic resulted in dramatic mortality worldwide. Photo credit: Wikipedia. Kristie Flannery … Timothy Brook, "Blame China? Outbreak orientalism, from the plague to coronavirus", The Globe and Mail … Why has China been blamed as the wellspring of global pandemics?
The flags of Zanzibar and Kenya were added this afternoon to the 111 flags already flying in front of the United Nations Headquarters in New York. 16 December 1963. Photo credit:
When you approach the Archivo General de la Nación (AGN) in Mexico City, Mexico, you notice large dark fences, big walls, and intriguing architecture. You typically enter through a massive gate, secured by an armed police officer, near the complex's parking lot. The guards and AGN's structural qualities convey a sense of protection and control. One could easily think that this design is to keep documents safely inside. While that is presently true, the original design was to keep people inside.
1770: Lieutenant James Cook claims east coast of Australia for Britain. Painting by John Hamilton. Photo credit: National Museum of Australia … Chloe Bordewich … Houri Berberian, "Roving Revolutionaries:
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