Wednesday, December 18, 2024

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From Guerrilla Fighters to Poets: Iranian Leftist Women's Literary Production Between 1940 and 1980

by Eszter Melitta Szabó "A day will come when mothers will fight shoulder to shoulder with us in such a struggle," begins Marziyeh Ahmadi Oskuʾi's (1941–1974) memoir, arguably one of the most radical yet lesser known members of the Organization... Continue Reading →

Monday, December 16, 2024

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Extremist Pop Culture and the American Evangelical Right: Jack Chick and the Origins of the 1980s “Satanic Panic”

by Sean Goodman The "Satanic Panic," a movement of religious extremism that began around 1980 and ended in the mid-1990s, was part of a wider period of sweeping moral panic among the American far-Right in the wake of the Civil... Continue Reading →

Wednesday, December 4, 2024

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Virtual Issue: Recent Work in French Intellectual History

This virtual issue highlights recent publications in the JHI of relevance to French intellectual history since the last quarter of the nineteenth century. The reason for compiling it is relatively simple—we hope that readers might enjoy it. This string of... Continue Reading →

Monday, December 2, 2024

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Life after Dark in the Ottoman Empire: An Interview with Avner Wishnitzer

by Nilab Saeedi Avner Wishnitzer is the Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University, with a specialization in the social and cultural history of the Ottoman Empire. He is the author of Reading... Continue Reading →

Wednesday, November 27, 2024

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The Life of Nuns: Luke Wilkinson Interviews Henrike Lähnemann

by Luke Wilkinson In this episoide of In Theory, Luke Wilkinson (Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge) interviews Henrike Lähnemann. They first discuss the intellectual and personal background of Professor Lähnemann's recent book, with Eva Schlotheuber, The Life of Nuns:... Continue Reading →

Monday, November 25, 2024

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JHI 85.4 now available!

The latest issue of the Journal of the History of Ideas (volume 85, issue 4) is now live on Project MUSE. Women and Intellectual History in the Twentieth Century, Part Two: Activists, Academics, and the Futurepp. 633 – 679, open access! Sophie... Continue Reading →

Thursday, November 21, 2024

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Advertising Etiquette: On Shaping the New York City Subway

by Simone Blandford In November 2023, the New York Times published an article entitled "Does Anyone Know How to Behave on the Subway Anymore?". Ana Ley's piece touched on the unspoken rules of etiquette on the New York City subway... Continue Reading →

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