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...François Hartog; Will Bishop; Sylvia Schafer Intervention The Present ofthe Historian Frani;ois Hartog Translated by Will Bishop and Sylvia Schafer For the last thirtyyears, the conditions for practicing the historian's craft have changedand they continue tochangeinfrontofour very eyes.One...

...Joseph D. Bryan Abstract Since the turn of the century, historians have focused on the diverse representations of the past, recognizing that traditional spaces (e.g., museums, statuary, and public commemorations) no longer have a monopoly on the public dissemination of history. This article...

...Idriss Jebari Abstract Moroccan historian Abdallah Laroui’s L’histoire du Maghreb: Un essai de synthèse ( The History of North Africa: An Interpretative Essay ) (1970) offers a prime example of a former colonized subject’s effort to decolonize the discipline of history. Scholars of Arab and North...

...Zach Sell Abstract Historians of the United States have often described slavery as guided by the chattel principle. Yet in Black Reconstruction , W. E. B. Du Bois wrote, “No matter how degraded the factory hand, he is not real estate.” This article builds upon Du Bois’s description of slavery’s...

...Joan Wallach Scott Abstract “Archive Angst” is a meditation on one historian’s attempt to create her own archive and the questions and challenges it poses. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 archive representation personal correspondence public/private distinction history...

... or another, to the post-Freudian description of the unconscious and its role in elaborating historians’ interest in the historical as such. One of these risks has to do with both parents’ responses to the child’s “epistemophilic instinct.” Children’s efforts to pursue their interest in their parents...

...Donald Reid Abstract The Gilets jaunes brought attention to the existence and demands of the popular classes as other than the deplorables of the far right. This essay examines the ideas of an innovative group of historians who interpret the Gilets jaunes as evoking and enacting the unresolved...

...Dwaipayan Banerjee Abstract In the history of medicine, the 1918 influenza pandemic (otherwise known as the Spanish flu) occupies a curious place. For decades, historians have claimed that this event reshaped human history, but then somehow disappeared, leaving little historical trace. They have...

... flare but engagement ends quickly. That may be true in general but elides a more likely explanation. Guild historians retreated to the past in search of cover from the present. In this light, Sweet’s target of “presentism” was a red herring to begin with because, for the most part, Sweet, his defenders...

... positivist, and definitive claim aboutpresenting the past "as it actuallyhappened": just the facts.' Historians have always been adept at offering paradigms they know are unattainable and then effacing those aspects that expose the instability or limitations of their model. What is under consideration here...

... of the twentieth century, who happened to be Muslims, were to be treated as “aliens” despite all evidence to the contrary. A group of Indian historians sought to combat this messaging by activating the protocols of empirical research and investigating such claims about the fifteenth-century past. However, what...

... based on whether this empiricist method has been capably employed. The field tends to produce scholars rather than thinkers, and regards scholars in technocratic terms. Historians typically write for other professional historians, paying special attention to the disciplinary norms and gatekeepers upon...

...Omnia El Shakry Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 In “Theses,” section iii , the collective reflects upon the interconnected practice of critical theory and history. “ Critical historians . . . recognize that they are psychically, epistemologically, ethically, and politically...

... as well. Currently, a group of historians is claiming that it might be history that provides the framework for a scientific and evolutionary account of every­ thing.Big History, so named by its foremost practitioner, David Christian, seeks to unite the two cultures under the framework of an elegant story...

... historians, rightly or wrongly, feel are not available to them. What historian of empire, of lndia and its ocean worlds, ofglobal commodity chains, of mobility and labor and intimacy, of women, gender and sexuality-to name only a few dimensions of the past that Sea ofPoppies renders so lyrically and so ver­...

... of electronic data processing equipment” (599) for humanistic research, they predicted that a new kind of sober empiricism would take hold in the historian’s relationship to the past. An unprecedented scientific rigor would be enabled. A bigger, convincing picture would provide proper context and right meaning...

... the difficulty of thinking beyond past concerns. Certainly, historians must battle the unjust weight of such past debris, which occludes liberatory perspectives from present views. Against this cataract, a direct reading of empire as both an object of history and the bearer of meaning in the present can appear...

..., the earliest imperial formation in Indian history. Historians disagree on the exact date and location ofChanakya. He is placed sometime between the third century BCE and the first and second centuries CE. He is alternately claimed to have been from Magadha in eastern India, from Takshashila in the northwest...

... ; Abu El-Haj, Combat Trauma ]). There is a collective here, and it is not jumping off the train . If there is an arc of history in Shavit’s and Morris’s political reckonings, it does not bend toward justice. Yes, the war that Palestinians have long narrated and that Palestinian and Arab historians...

... there, but there are costs, too: it means some such stories will not be all that new, which undermines our historical perspective on ourselves, letting us off the hook, as it were. It also means many historians are oddly committed, if only by implication, to the idea that little of what historians have done in the past...