Number of articles per page:
-
Emmanuel Destenay
Several boys are standing at attention in the middle of the street during a parade in Kansas City, Missouri, May 18, 1918. Courtesy of the National Archives at College Park, Maryland. On May 18, 1918, fourteen thousand high school students from St. Louis, Missouri, public schools, accompanied by fourteen drum corps and seven professional bands, paraded […]
Read More
-
Samantha Balaton-Chrimes
In July 2023, President Ruto stood in a marquee in Kilifi County and proclaimed that the Pemba people officially constituted an ethnic community of Kenya. The crowd was elated. Recognition as an ethnic group, it turns out, is understood by presidents and communities alike as a prerequisite for citizenship. His predecessor Uhuru Kenyatta did the […]
Read More
-
Emilia Simison, Alejandro Bonvecchi
In March 1979, the government of dictator General Jorge Rafael Videla, submitted a law proposal to overhaul Argentina’s revenue-sharing regime. Following the rules of this regime, the bill was duly presented to the Legislative Advisory Commission, a legislative body created by the dictatorship and staffed by military officers. The provincial governors, who were also appointed […]
Read More
-
Christian R. Gelder
In 1915, Robert Chenault Givler published the results of his PhD thesis, which he had undertaken at the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. The work was entitled ‘The Psycho-physiological Effect of the Elements of Speech in Relation to Poetry’ and consisted of Givler strapping a series of readers to an early blood-pressure device in the hopes of […]
Read More
-
Astrid Van Oyen
What the viral TikTok “how often do you think about the Roman empire” did not ask was what people imagine when they think of the Roman world. When I ask my first-year students to jot down three instant associations with the Roman world, the top three unmistakably includes marble, emperors, and war. We are conditioned […]
Read More
-
Justin Vickers, Lucy Walker
When Lucy Walker and I began work on Elizabeth Maconchy in Context, we were motivated by a simple conviction: Maconchy’s music and career demand a fuller account than she has usually been granted. She was one of the most prominent and successful twentieth-century composers, yet she is still too often reduced to a few familiar […]
Read More
-
Matthijs den Dulk
In the past several years we have witnessed a rapid and unsettling shift from the “post-racial” aspirations of the Obama era and the global outcry of the Black Lives Matter movement after the murder of George Floyd to our present reality, in which far-right nationalist politics are surging in many parts of the globe. The […]
Read More
-
Sandrine Bergès
I’ve written about Wollstonecraft a lot, in the last fifteen years: books, articles, edited volumes. I started writing about her the minute I found out about her. And I found out about her because a male colleague suggested we add her Vindication of the Rights of Woman to our intro to social and political philosophy […]
Read More
-
Emmanuel Destenay
Several boys are standing at attention in the middle of the street during a parade in Kansas City, Missouri, May 18, 1918. Courtesy of the National Archives at College Park, Maryland. On May 18, 1918, fourteen thousand high school students from St. Louis, Missouri, public schools, accompanied by fourteen drum corps and seven professional bands, paraded […]
Read More
-
Samantha Balaton-Chrimes
In July 2023, President Ruto stood in a marquee in Kilifi County and proclaimed that the Pemba people officially constituted an ethnic community of Kenya. The crowd was elated. Recognition as an ethnic group, it turns out, is understood by presidents and communities alike as a prerequisite for citizenship. His predecessor Uhuru Kenyatta did the […]
Read More
-
Emilia Simison, Alejandro Bonvecchi
In March 1979, the government of dictator General Jorge Rafael Videla, submitted a law proposal to overhaul Argentina’s revenue-sharing regime. Following the rules of this regime, the bill was duly presented to the Legislative Advisory Commission, a legislative body created by the dictatorship and staffed by military officers. The provincial governors, who were also appointed […]
Read More
-
Christian R. Gelder
In 1915, Robert Chenault Givler published the results of his PhD thesis, which he had undertaken at the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. The work was entitled ‘The Psycho-physiological Effect of the Elements of Speech in Relation to Poetry’ and consisted of Givler strapping a series of readers to an early blood-pressure device in the hopes of […]
Read More
-
Astrid Van Oyen
What the viral TikTok “how often do you think about the Roman empire” did not ask was what people imagine when they think of the Roman world. When I ask my first-year students to jot down three instant associations with the Roman world, the top three unmistakably includes marble, emperors, and war. We are conditioned […]
Read More
-
Justin Vickers, Lucy Walker
When Lucy Walker and I began work on Elizabeth Maconchy in Context, we were motivated by a simple conviction: Maconchy’s music and career demand a fuller account than she has usually been granted. She was one of the most prominent and successful twentieth-century composers, yet she is still too often reduced to a few familiar […]
Read More
-
Matthijs den Dulk
In the past several years we have witnessed a rapid and unsettling shift from the “post-racial” aspirations of the Obama era and the global outcry of the Black Lives Matter movement after the murder of George Floyd to our present reality, in which far-right nationalist politics are surging in many parts of the globe. The […]
Read More
-
Sandrine Bergès
I’ve written about Wollstonecraft a lot, in the last fifteen years: books, articles, edited volumes. I started writing about her the minute I found out about her. And I found out about her because a male colleague suggested we add her Vindication of the Rights of Woman to our intro to social and political philosophy […]
Read More
Number of articles per page:
