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November 26, 2024
This Abominable Slavery
On July 22, 1847, a group of about forty refugees entered the Salt Lake Valley. Among them were three enslaved men, two of whom shared the religion, M…
November 21, 2024
Civic Solitude
An internet search of the phrase "this is what democracy looks like" returns thousands of images of people assembled in public for the purpose of coll…
November 21, 2024
Reluctant Race Men
Activists in the earliest Black antebellum reform endeavors contested and deprecated the concept of race. Attacks on the logic and ethics of dividing…
November 20, 2024
Venice
No city stirs the imagination more than Venice. From the richly ornamented palaces emerging from the waters of the Grand Canal to the dazzling sites o…
November 19, 2024
The Eastern International
In the first few years after the Russian Revolution, an ideological project coalesced to link the development of what Stalin demarcated as the interna…
November 19, 2024
Complicit Participation
In this incisive critique of the ways performances of allyship can further entrench white privilege, author Carrie J. Preston analyses her own complic…
November 19, 2024
Developing Scholars
Over the past fifty years, debates concerning race and college admissions have focused primarily on the policy of affirmative action at elite institut…
November 18, 2024
Only the Clothes on Her Back
What can dresses, bedlinens, waistcoats, pantaloons, shoes, and kerchiefs tell us about the legal status of the least powerful members of American soc…
November 17, 2024
In Search of Jonathan
In both modern fiction and the biblical texts of 1 Samuel 13-2 Samuel 1, the character of Jonathan serves as a key literary and theological figure. Th…
November 14, 2024
Life 24x a Second
Life 24x a Second: Cinema, Selfhood, and Society (Oxford UP, 2023) highlights the life-sustaining and life-affirming power of cinema. Author Elsie Wal…
November 12, 2024
Women on Philosophy of Art
Women on Philosophy of Art: Britain 1770-1900 (Oxford UP, 2024) is the first study of women's philosophies of art in long nineteenth-century Britain. …
November 11, 2024
Good Victims
In the latest edition of Ethnographic Marginalia, we talk with Roxani Krystalli about her new book Good Victims: The Political as a Feminist Question …
November 11, 2024
Empire of Rags and Bones
Paper, bottles, metal scrap, kitchen garbage, rubber, hair, fat, rags, and bones--the Nazi empire demanded its population obsessively collect anything…
November 10, 2024
Alien Structure
It is not uncommon to encounter people who think and talk about the world so differently from the way you do that it’s not really possible to put your…
November 8, 2024
Martin Van Buren
Despite serving as the 8th president of the United States, Martin Van Buren gets little consideration for his impact on American history. In his new b…
November 7, 2024
Beyond the Wire
The United States stands at a crossroads in international security. The backbone of its international position for the last 70 years has been the mass…
November 6, 2024
Dante's Education
In fourteenth-century Italy, literacy became accessible to a significantly larger portion of the lay population (allegedly between 60 and 80 percent i…
November 5, 2024
Sick Note
Sick Note: A History of the British Welfare State (Oxford UP, 2022) is a history of how the British state asked, 'who is really sick?' Tracing medical…
November 1, 2024
Reimagining the Past in the Borderlands of Medieval England and Wales
Challenging the standard view that England emerged as a dominant power and Wales faded into obscurity after Edward I's conquest in 1282, Reimagining t…
October 30, 2024
Hessians
Between 1776 and 1783, Britain hired an estimated 30,000 German soldiers to fight in its war against the Americans. Collectively known as Hessians, th…