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The Dead Book Revisited
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 208–215.
Published: 01 October 2016
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Aphrodite Stillborn: Heinrich Heine, Humanitarian Imperatives, and the Dead of Shipwreck
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (1): 27–54.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Henning Trüper Copyright © 2019 University of Illinois Press 2019 Aphrodite Stillborn: Heinrich Heine, Humanitarian Imperatives, and the Dead ofShipwreck Henning Triiper I. When hespentthesummer of1833in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Heinrich Heinewit nessed a disaster at sea, the wreck oftheAmphitrite...
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Depth and Death: On History, Humanitarianism, and Mortuary Culture
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 119–151.
Published: 01 October 2021
... of the baptismal sacrament and, even more fundamentally, of the commemoration of the dead, that is to say, of cultural practices that make far more of names than mere historical writing does. The rules that constitute the language games in place are rich, and more importantly, they belong to diverse sign systems...
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Dalit Histories, Pandemic Histories
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 27–30.
Published: 01 April 2023
... example of this experience of the pandemic and the workings of Dalit pandemic history. He was as exposed to the brutalities of caste as he was to the COVID-19 casualties ( Majumdar ). A crematorium worker, Ashu was not vaccinated, nor did his presence among the dominant caste dead bodies make him any less...
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History and the Lesser Death
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 172–175.
Published: 01 April 2020
..., as well as their legacies and afterlives, being analyzed” ( iii .6). What, then, is the role of ethics within the writing of history? And how might our ethics be connected to the psychic stakes we hold in our objects of study? As historians, what is our responsibility to the dead in our present...
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Archive Angst
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (1): 107–118.
Published: 01 April 2021
... is a place of dreams and desire, a space where we commune with the dead, resurrecting them, identifying with them, or distinguishing ourselves from them. Michelet imagined he was exhuming the denizens of the past “for a second life” (Steedman 71). Michel de Certeau wrote of the historian’s double engagement...
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Zones of Refuge: Fugitive Memories of Violence in the Work of FX Harsono
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (2): 177–208.
Published: 01 October 2018
... with permission of the artist. taken the photos at the request of the national ethnic Chinese organization that sponsored the exhumation. After being unearthed and photographed, the remains were reburied with proper rituals and a stone marker memorializing the dead was placed in a local Chinese cemetery...
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Excerpts from Thomas Müntzer as Theologian of Revolution
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History of the Present (2025) 15 (1): 10–13.
Published: 01 April 2025
...Ernst Bloch; Loren Goldman Copyright © 2025 by Duke University Press 2025 We always want to only be with ourselves. So even here we are by no means looking backward. Rather, we mix ourselves in vividly. And the others also return transformed in it, the dead come back, their actions want...
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Antigone as Kurdish Politician: Gendered Dwellings in the Limit Between Freedom and Peace
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (2): 113–141.
Published: 01 October 2019
..., the Kurdish political movement first limited her appearances at public events and then reassigned her to a regional position. In 2 016 she resigned from politics altogether when, in the city of Cizre, government forces burned dead, wounded, and living insurgents, killing them all. Her last public statement...
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Freedom’s Surprise: Two Paths Through Slavery’s Archives
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 133–145.
Published: 01 October 2016
...David Kazanjian Freedom's Surprise: Two Paths Through Slavery's Archives David Kazanjian Unfortunately I have not discovered a way of deranging the archive so that it might recall the content of a girl's life or reveal a truer picture, nor have I succeeded in prying open the dead book, which...
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Front Matter
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (1): i–iv.
Published: 01 April 2019
[email protected]. VOLUME NINE, NUMBER ONE, SPRING 2019 History ofthe Present A "Special" Difference: For a Foucauldian/Feminist Genealogy ofFreud Ed Cohen 1 Aphrodite Stillborn: Heinrich Heine, Humanitarian Imperatives, and the Dead ofShipwreck Henning Triiper 27 "The Darker to the Lighter Races:" The Precolonial...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): i–iv.
Published: 01 October 2016
... RESPONSE The Dead Book Revisited Saidiya Hartman 208 Copyright © 2016 University of Illinois Press 2016 ...
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The Information of History Triptych
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 176–182.
Published: 01 April 2020
...John Modern Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 The archive is a haunted place, they say. Where the dead speak to the living. Where human contact becomes a transcendent matter. Where the living are left suspended even after they leave. All those loose pages, pamphlets...
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The History of the Subject and the Subject of History
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 34–59.
Published: 01 April 2022
... into question, and by man, the existence of any survivors is an irrelevancy, and the interview with the survivors is an insipid falsification of the truth of atomic warfare. To have done the atom bomb justice, Mr. Hersey would have had to interview the dead. —Mary McCarthy, “The Hiroshima New Yorker...
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Excerpts from The War of the Poor
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History of the Present (2025) 15 (1): 116–122.
Published: 01 April 2025
.... On November 13, 1504, his scroll of ink and pale colors folded in on itself. The birds flew off into the landscape, the solitary fisherman raised his head, the chestnuts fell into the water, the boat drifted a moment from shore. And in the tall grass sprouting among the rocks, between the dead branches...
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Guinea Sam Nightingale and Magic Marx in Civil War Missouri: Provincializing Global History and Decolonizing Theory
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (2): 140–176.
Published: 01 October 2018
... shot John dead and captured Lin. With this defeat, some of the rebels were sold away to the South, and the rest returned to bondage in Missouri.53 It is in its crossing and combining of times, spaces, and individuals that Conjure generally, and Vodou perhaps most emphatically, conceptualize social...
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Digital Commemorations of Slave Revolt
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (2): 257–280.
Published: 01 October 2020
... of the 1811 German Coast Uprising in New Orleans; both of these examples constitute ephemeral commemorations rather than concrete monuments. The reasons why monuments to the rebel enslaved are almost entirely absent in the US South are probably obvious in a landscape that remains pocked with memorials to dead...
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The Present of the Historian
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (2): 203–219.
Published: 01 October 2014
... a bridge between old and new France, someone who recounted the nation's slow formation and inculcated the Republic.2 For Marc Bloch, history was"the science of men in time" that"requires us to join the study of the dead and the living:' to move from the past to the present and from the present to the past...
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On Coming Home: The Elasticity of Migration
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 40–44.
Published: 01 April 2023
.... Coupled with a drought, this cultivation dried up the underground water, turning oases throughout the south into lifeless spaces dotted with dead palm trees. Roots of palm trees dried up. Villagers driven by profit realized only too late that they had exchanged their water, now inside the fruit, for just...
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Occupy Wall Street: “Bartleby” Against the Humanities
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (1): 99–118.
Published: 01 April 2013
...). On the basis ofan unconfirmed rumor about Bartleby's life before he showed up on Wall Street-a rumor "that Bartleby had been a subordinate clerk in the Dead Letter Office at Washington" (99) -the lawyer spins out a fantasydesignedto make Bartleby make sense, a fantasy rife with the morbid sentiments...
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