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The metaphor of New Jerusalem has long been used to justify dueling narratives of America as the lan
“We are a much-lectured people,” wrote Robert Spence Watson in 1897. Beginning at mid-century, citie
An understanding of Dante the theologian as distinct from Dante the poet has been neglected in an ap
Anticolonial movements of the twentieth century generated audacious ideas of freedom. Following deco
Dangerous Anarchist Strikers (Brill, 2023) explores the ideas of three largely forgotten radical wom
Women's virginity held tremendous significance in early Christianity and the Mediterranean world. Ea
Flat-World Fiction: Digital Humanity in Early Twenty-First-Century America (University of Georgia Pr
Between 1911 and 1912, Prague was home to Albert Einstein and Franz Kafka, two of the twentieth-cent
In Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction (Northwestern UP, 2024), Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas
Fascists such as Richard Spencer interpret science fiction films and literature as saying only white
Democracy is a living, breathing thing and Dr. Erica Benner has spent a lifetime thinking about the
Darwin called the Galápagos archipelago “a little world within itself,” unaffected by humans and set
Activists in the earliest Black antebellum reform endeavors contested and deprecated the concept of
Indian Philosophy and Yoga in Germany by Owen Ware (Routledge, 2024) takes the reader on a tour thro
In the first few years after the Russian Revolution, an ideological project coalesced to link the de
In both modern fiction and the biblical texts of 1 Samuel 13-2 Samuel 1, the character of Jonathan s
By the end of the twentieth century, the idea of self-esteem had become enormously influential. A st
In this episode, Alisa talks with Lewis H. Siegelbaum, who, along with J. Arch Getty, edited Reflect
Millions of GIs returned from overseas in 1945. A generation of men who had left their families and
Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism (University of California Press, 2024)
