Having seen the fascinating collection of Digital Humanities Projects in general, as well as historically oriented projects at Stanford’s CESTA Spatial History Project (available here), I could not help but suspect that European Academies would at least be able to … Continue reading
A Review of Andrew Shryock, Daniel Lord Smail (Eds.): Deep History. The Architecture of Past and Present. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2011. ————— If historical facts are indeed always situated in a web of socially given … Continue reading
Jane Burbank’s and Frederick Cooper’s Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference is, without a doubt, a giant book. I say this not necessarily because of its 459 pages, but also because of the sheer size of … Continue reading
Reading Drew Gilpin Faust (2008): This Republic of Suffering, NY: Vintage Books. As always, the use of images is for educational purposes (see the syllabus), and no copyright infringement is intended. From a European point of view, the Civil War … Continue reading
It seems evident that a gendered historiographical approach will be eminently directed towards furthering both the feminist and the LGBTQ cause – causes which, in the recent political turmoil surrounding a ‘war on women,’ sadly seems to be more pressing … Continue reading
An answer to this assignment. As always, the usage of photos is for educational purposes and I do not make any profit with them. ————– “In short, Humanism is the sum total of all measures by which the desire of … Continue reading
An answer to this assignment. The articles read are, in chronological order: Hans-Ulrich Wehler (1970): Bismarck’s Imperialism 1862-1890, in: Past & Present, No. 48, pp. 119-50 E. P. Thompson (1971): The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth … Continue reading
A response to this assignment. Unless otherwise noted, all material contained in this post is derived from an interview conducted on September 13, 2012. ————- Dr. LaDale C. Winling is Assistant Professor at the Department of History at Virginia Tech, … Continue reading
American History Review Forum: Historiographic “Turns” in Critical Perspective Part Two: Forum Reflection An answer to this assignment. If the American Historical Review forum discussed here indeed aims to represent the most recent discussion in historiography (and given its date … Continue reading
American History Review Forum: Historiographic “Turns” in Critical Perspective Part One: Forum Readings An answer to this assignment. Judith Surkis: When Was the Linguistic Turn? A Geneaology, pp. 700-722 The historiographical task of historicizing historiographical turns is itself a historiographical … Continue reading