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The Story of Big History
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (2): 171–202.
Published: 01 October 2014
...Ian Hesketh The Story ofBig History Ian Hesketh The goal is not to read a book; the goal is to read the story taking place all around us. -Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry, The Universe Story No one and nothing lives a story. -Hayden White, Tropics ofDiscourse Consilience has long been the dream...
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Emergence and History: Variola Stories
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 31–39.
Published: 01 April 2023
... campaigns. One could devote several volumes to variola stories: to Edward Jenner’s cutaneous insertions of the vaccinia virus (a microorganism named after its host, vacca , Latin for cow) to prevent variola infection; to the eighteenth-century smallpox vaccination campaigns that institutionalized medical...
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“Much-Abused Luke”: Slavery, Sexual Terror, and Protest
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 81–107.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Caleb Knapp Abstract This essay revisits a familiar but seldom discussed anecdote of same-sex sexual abuse in the archive of Atlantic slavery: the story of Luke in Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861). Through a close reading of Luke’s story, the article advances three...
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Injury and Value: Black Mothering in Slavery and Its Afterlife
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 138–155.
Published: 01 April 2024
... to scholarship that analyzes reproductive racial slavery’s afterlife, particularly how slavery’s matrilineal principle shaped the meaning of Black motherhood in bondage and in freedom. Exploring violent confrontations with empire in moments of profound change, the stories of Catharina and Ruth each offer new...
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Openings after the Last Sky: A Pandemic Dispatch from Palestine
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 136–140.
Published: 01 April 2023
... the story, but I did not understand the power of storytelling. To tell stories is ongoing; to hold onto one linear story is succumbing to confinement. While the narrative of a nation-state might require linearity, Palestinian history does not. The narrative arc of beginnings and endings is a trap...
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The Time of the Migrant
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 11–19.
Published: 01 April 2023
... in deeply personal terms. We force others to tell again and again their personal stories and promise to listen only some of the time, if at all. As many commentators repeatedly remind us, the current pandemic feels so personal, but it is so very structural. We can get to some of that collective story...
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The Bones in the Concept: Big History, Theodor Adorno and Second Nature
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (1): 63–86.
Published: 01 April 2016
... Big History.1 In a spate of recent books, the story of human history-leading up to and even beyond the present predicament ofglobal climate change -is placed within the even larger explanatory framework ofthe universe. This interdisciplinary attempt to view history on the largest possible scale...
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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
... but of enduring catastrophes. Dalits offer stories of hope, survival, and life, even in and through the debris of caste atrocity and erasure. Psychological assaults on their dignity and physical attacks on their bodies have not deterred Dalits from imagining and shaping collectivities of care and survival. Dalits...
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On the Politics of Viruses and Visibility
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 20–26.
Published: 01 April 2023
... “women’s status” but also their general health and well-being in those societies at the weaker end of these global and regional disparities. What would it mean to tell the story of Muslim (or Third World) women by beginning with the concerns and interests of the women themselves rather than...
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Life After Sovereignty
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (1): 97–113.
Published: 01 April 2014
... other stories, those other worlds, whose modes ofdeath and life are irreducible, even indifferent, to its dialectics and determinations? 98 HISTORY ofthe PRESENT How is it, in a word, that sovereignty has become so damn sovereign? And what exactly are we talking about in all our incessant talk about...
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The Politics of the Archive and History’s Accountability to the Enslaved
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 117–132.
Published: 01 October 2016
... of the trial that pretended to adjudicate her death.5 She represents "the hundreds of thousands of other girls who share [the] circumstances" of an existence that has "generated few stories; or more to the point, has generated "stories that [. . .] are not about them, but rather aboutthe violence, excess...
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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 central character in Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener;' which bore the subtitle, "A Story of Wall Street; when originally published in 1853, Gersen's article proposes that the cadaverous young man who refuses, in the course of Melville's tale, either to continue his work as a copyist for a Wall...
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History as a Cautionary Tale
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 133–135.
Published: 01 April 2023
..., heart-wrenching tales of personal and collective suffering. These stories are often told in a calm, pragmatic, matter-of-fact tone, one not too dissimilar from the so-called detachment of the early twentieth-century historian. They are partly animated by the impulse to preserve collective memory...
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Amitav Ghosh’s World Histories from Below
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (1): 71–77.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Antoinette Burton Copyright © 2012 University of Illinois Press 2012 Roundtable: Amitav Ghosh's Sea ofPoppies Amitav Ghosh's World Histories from Below Antoinette Burton New modalities are definitely coming to the fore. -Baboo Nob Kissin, Sea ofPoppies (2008) [It] is not a story with a happy...
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Plural: Mormon Polygamy and the Biopolitics of Secularism
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (2): 219–241.
Published: 01 October 2017
... chiefpoints ofupheaval and transition, the story ofnineteenth-century Mormonism itsel£ I will be concerned with the Mormons from the period of their emergence as a dissident sect, noted as much for their post-Protestant heterodoxy as for an extravagant carnal imagination, through to their renun ciation...
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Liberalism’s Incestuous Subject: Private and Public Sex in the Nineteenth-Century United States
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 31–58.
Published: 01 April 2011
... that the story was rewritten for American readers.So while not a new story, it nonetheless resonated with specific anxieties about privacy, 32 HISTORY ofthe PRESENT the family, sexuality, and criminality prevalent in the post-revolutionary United States.4 The narrative spanned twenty-five years and was marked...
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Theorizing Palimpsests: Unfolding Pasts into the Present
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 193–208.
Published: 01 October 2021
... , eds. Scramble for the Past: A Story of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire, 1753–1914 . Istanbul : Salt/Garanti Kültür , 2011 . Fox Tessa . “ ‘They are Barbaric’: Turkey Prepares to Flood 12,000-Year-Old City to Build Dam .” Guardian , September 12 , 2019 . www.theguardian.com/cities...
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Who and What is Sex For?: Notes on Theogamy and the Sexuality of Religion
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (2): 175–196.
Published: 01 October 2017
... by gendered relations.5 In invoking the sexuality of religion, I am working against the idea that some forms ofreligionare (improperly) infused with or investedin sexuality 176 HI STORY ofthe PRESENT andothers arenot.This is an idea Ihavecome up againstoverandover again in the course of my research...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (2): 139–174.
Published: 01 October 2017
..., and computers were used to survey each station to record the viewer mail 140 HI STORY ofthe PRESENT and donations it generated for Humbard ministries.Stations that failed to reach predetermined revenue standards were dropped as outlets.5 The hour-long YouAreLoved was, first and foremost, a genre that followed...
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Vicissitudes and Their Inscriptions
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 143–153.
Published: 01 April 2022
...) with geschichte (occurrence, narration, tale, history). This confluence will be explored below as Freud’s own inscription of a psychoanalytic theory of history as narrative story. Furthermore, his introduction of the case study as a genre of narrative writing submits to the public a particular relation...
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