History’s Imagined Past: How Scholars Invented Historical Time
Sarit Kattan Gribetz on Oded Steinberg’s Race, Nation, History The fields of rabbinics and ancient Judaism have long asked a tantalizing question: Was
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Inheriting Autonomy: The German Romantics Reconsidered
Frederick Beiser on Magnificent Rebels by Andrea Wulf Andrea Wulf’s book Magnificent Rebels is a portrait of the early romantic circle in Jena
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Denmark Vesey: Conspiracy, Scripture, and Slave Rebellion
Bernard E. Powers Jr. on Jeremy Schipper’s, Denmark Vesey’s Bible The spring and summer months of 2022 marked two-hundred years since the discovery
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Can Weimar Germany Help Us Now?
Evan Kuehn on Humberto Beck If you want to draw a simplistic historical analogy that emphasizes the sheer evil of a person, there
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From Siberia to NASA: Confronting Sexism in Science
Philip Ball on A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman by Lindy Elkins-Tanton Space science is a long game. NASA’s Psyche
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Latinx Activists: Politics, Theology, and Church Occupation
Barbara Sostaita on Felipe Hinojosa Felipe Hinojosa’s Apostles of Change: Latino Radical Politics, Church Occupations, and the Fight to Save the Barrio casts
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From Spoons to Garter Belts: Inscribing Time
Daniel Woolf on the Yale Center for British Art collection, Marking Time Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really
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Judaism and the Reshaping of Medieval Historiography
Julie Mell on Cordelia Hess Absent Jews is a rare book. It delves into modern history in order to reconsider medieval history. A
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Scientific Certainty and Religious Mystery
It is not difficult to see why natural disaster phenomena find religious signification. From the primeval deluge in Genesis to the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, religious meaning is often attributed to the calamitous effects of natural disasters which unsettle the status quo.
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Art’s Progressive Politics: A New Public Sphere?
Donato Loia on David Joselit T he last forty years have seen a boom in academic studies. There are thousands of specialist books
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