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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 155–183.
Published: 01 October 2016
...Seth Moglen Copyright © 2016 University of Illinois Press 2016 Enslaved in the City on a Hill: The Archive ofMoravian Slavery and the Practical Past Seth Moglen Storytelling and the Politics ofthe Archive Historians have long recognized the central political conundrum of the ar­ chive...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 146–151.
Published: 01 April 2020
... in regard to both its content and form, it should also be noted that Familiar Stranger explicitly transcends memoir. In doing so, it actively defies any notion of a project of recovering the past. Hall contends that while memories are present in the book, he did not set out to “recover my memories...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 265–274.
Published: 01 October 2023
... 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...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): 140–159.
Published: 01 October 2013
...Zrinka Stahuljak Copyright © 2013 University of Illinois Press 2013 History as a Medical Category: Heredity, Positivism, and the Study ofthe Past in Nineteenth-Century France Zrinka Stahuijak If history is notof greater service to medicine, thatis notthe fault of history, butitis the faultof...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 183–206.
Published: 01 October 2022
... with emancipatory possibilities that we understand better when we can see the undead of 1793, 1848, and 1871 they have summoned. We can appreciate, in all their imperfections, the potential alternatives offered by the popular classes in both the eighteenth and nineteenth-century past and the twenty-first century...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 141–165.
Published: 01 October 2023
..., Upper Mattaponi, and Rappahannock tribes—and pay our respect to their tribal members past and present.” The institution’s intention and contextual understanding of the acknowledgment is elaborated on a subpage of the university’s website for its American Indian Resource Center. Explaining what a land...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 193–208.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Aslı Iğsız Abstract How do we connect the past with the present to address structural problems? While the pursuit of a cause-and-effect past flowing into the present contributes to the understanding of an event or object, how that past is recalled, represented, related, disconnected, suppressed...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 84–100.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Serawit B. Debele Abstract Focusing on Ethiopia, an empire off-center, this article argues against dominant narratives that link the regulation of sexual practices to colonial (Western) imperial relations. Within this context, the paper investigates struggles over the past by contrasting two...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (2): 245–273.
Published: 01 October 2024
...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...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 117–121.
Published: 01 April 2020
..., the authors draw attention to how it opens a space between past and present; metropole and colony; high and low cultural forms; Jamaica and Britain; history and memory; seeing and knowing. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 decolonization diaspora postcolonialism cultural studies Black...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (1): 53–79.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Jaeyoon Park Abstract In the past four decades, the discourse on addiction in the United States has dramatically changed. Most scholarly and popular accounts have depicted this change as an instance of “medicalization,” whereby medical definitions and imperatives have displaced those of morality...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 119–151.
Published: 01 October 2021
... to be achieved in and by historical discourse. At least some of the more conceptually profound challenges that accounts of “deep history”—of very distant pasts—pose to historical discourse have to do with pursuits of this norm. Historical theory has the potential of responding to some of these challenges...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 166–191.
Published: 01 October 2023
... at different temporal levels simultaneously, often reconstructing a past from which a different future could emerge. I extend Eshun’s observation of Afrofuturist tendencies to the larger group of alternative futures that in his words create “revisionist historicities” as a series of “powerful competing futures...
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (2): 203–219.
Published: 01 October 2014
... they continue tochangeinfrontofour very eyes.One oftenreads thehandyformula ofcrisis as an explanation ofthis: a"crisis" ofhistory,"dis­ oriented" history, it has beensaid,whileour relationship to time has continued to change.With our future closed off, the past has been engulfed in shadow and the present has...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 176–182.
Published: 01 April 2020
.... For, ideally, like the brain, what we really want is “freedom toward the future—freedom from affairs intercurrent between our ideas and our deeds” (McCulloch, “Through the Den” 149–50). Cybernetics was “a dynamic science [that] has no need of its past,” quipped Marvin Minsky, cofounder of the MIT Computer...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 1–3.
Published: 01 April 2020
... the lies that politicians spew forth; that, they argue, is criticism enough. We disagree; we think there is always more to the writing of history than the correction of errors of fact. There is inevitably an interpretive perspective, a set of premises about the relationship of past, present, and future...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 172–175.
Published: 01 April 2020
... history. If the task of the critical historian, in Benjamin’s words, is “to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger,” then it is only by contemplating our own disappearance, or stated differently, our own death, within a moment of danger that the historian can seize the past...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 5–8.
Published: 01 April 2020
... as constitutive not only of the past, but of our broader social reality. A history that can address our imperial present, we contend, must take contemporary questions as its starting point. Today more than ever, imperial histories loom in the background of contemporary debates, calling into question François...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 April 2011
... of contemporary debate by making them appear inevitable, natural, or culturallynecessary; and to publish work that calls into question certainties about the relationship between past and present that are takenfor grantedby themajorityofpracticing historians. We seek to encourage the critical examination...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (2): 274–296.
Published: 01 October 2024
.... [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 Abdallah Laroui decolonization French empire Arab intellectual history Arab historiography Can there be a future while one’s past still belongs to others? That is the question pondered by the young Moroccan historian...