Join us on Friday, 12 September 2025 at 12:30pm for the 2025 History and Theory Lecture, Jacques Rancière's “Dividing Time: Reflections on the Practice of an Amateur Historian,” with a response by Emily Apter (NYU).

Our newest #OneMoreThing... post is out now! Read "The Eastern West Meets the Far East: Dialogues on Historical Theory—A Conversation between Ewa Domańska and Zhang Zuocheng 张作成" on our website: historyandtheory.org/omt/2025-ewa...

#ArticleSnapshot📸: Terence Renaud's review article titled "Historical Antifascism and the Global Left" examines Joseph Fronczak's Everything Is Possible: Antifascism and the Left in the Age of Fascism. Read it #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...

#ArticleSnapshot📸: Ian Hunter's review article titled "Creative Disintegration: The Perpetual Emergence of Modern Political Thought" discusses Michael Sonenscher's After Kant: The Romans, the Germans, and the Moderns in the History of Political Thought. Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...

#ArticleSnapshot📸: Margrit Pernau's review article titled "Decolonizing Theory and Concepts: Perspectives from the Global South" discusses the book Changing Theory: Concepts from the Global South, edited by Dilip M. Menon. Read it #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...

#ArticleSnapshot📸: Based on her keynote address at the 2024 INTH Conference, Joan W. Scott's "'A Guesser in This Vale of Tears': On the Politics of History Writing" "makes 3 points about historians’ responsibilities in the current moment." Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...

#ArticleSnapshot📸: In "'Civilization' or 'Empire'? 'China' as a Historical Entity in Contestation," Nagatomi Hirayama discusses the "civilization-to-nation" and "empire-to-nation" approaches to modern Chinese historical studies. Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...

#ArticleSnapshot📸: Abhishek Kaicker's "From Eternity to Apocalypse" examines an "interstitial history" and "the origins of the pervasive misconception that Mughal historical thought had faded to insignificance in the eighteenth century." Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...

#ArticleSnapshot📸: In "Philosophy of History as a Critique of Violence," Vinsent Nollet "develops a historical-philosophical rather than a political-theological interpretation of Benjamin's 'Critique of Violence.'" Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...

#ArticleSnapshot📸: Marnie Hughes-Warrington's "Ethics for Artificial Historians" calls for "a revised approach to the ethics of history." Read it #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...

Our June 2025 issue is out now! 🎉 Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14682303...

#ArticleSnapshot📸: Premesh Lalu's review essay in our March 2025 issue focuses on Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling by Erica Fretwell. Read it #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...

#ArticleSnapshot📸: Andrew Baird's essay in our March 2025 is a review of Singular Pasts: The “I” in Historiography, written by Enzo Traverso and translated by Adam Schoene. Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...

#ArticleSnapshot📸: Fernando Esposito's review essay in our March 2025 issue focuses on Der Riss in der Zeit: Kosellecks ungeschriebene Historik by Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann. Read it #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...

#ArticleSnapshot📸: Clifford Siskin's "The Advancement of Knowledge Now" examines Information: A Historical Companion and asks, "Why is a volume that offers so much of value so unattuned to issues of advancement?" Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...

#ArticleSnapshot📸: In "Misfits, Power, and History," Andrew Flack and Alice Would "construct a critical history of 'ability' by focusing on the specific case study of dark-dwelling animals" and how "they have been understood over the course of modernity." doi.org/10.1111/hith...

#ArticleSnapshot📸: Paul Cheney's "Inheritance and Incest" shows that "Montesquieu's treatment of inheritance bears a remarkable homology with Lévi-Strauss's treatment of incest." Read it #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...

#ArticleSnapshot📸: In "The Stupid Nineteenth Century," Callum Barrell and Sara Raimondi "address the charge of 'stupidity' leveled at nineteenth-century thought by recent critical posthumanist and post-anthropocentric theorists." Read it #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1111/hith...

#ArticleSnapshot📸: Ewa Domanska's "Revisiting Montaillou" examines Le Roy Ladurie's "novelistic writing style" and "historians’ criticisms of how Le Roy Ladurie used historical sources." Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...

📢 Our March 2025 issue is out now! Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14682303...

OUT NOW🎉: Andre de Lemos Freixo and João Ohara's “History and Ethics: An Introduction to the Theme Issue,” our newest addition to #OneMoreThing! In it, the authors introduce the December 2024 #HistoryAndEthics theme issue. Read it here: historyandtheory.org/omt/2025-his...

CFP: "Synchronizing History: The Transplantation of American Ideas in Europe" Event details: 17–19 September 2025 at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, synchronizinghistory.com Submission deadline: 14 March 2025 For more info, contact: [email protected]

#ArticleSnapshot📸: Carolyn J. Dean's #HistoryAndEthics article, "Bystanders, Jews, and Historical Interpretation," examines "the moral questions and historical claims implicit in the bystander category." Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...

#ArticleSnapshot📸: Antoon De Baets's #HistoryAndEthics theme issue contribution is titled "Open Letters in Closed Societies: The Values of Historians Under Attack." Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...

#ArticleSnapshot📸: Natan Elgabsi's #HistoryAndEthics contribution is titled "What Is Responsibility toward the Past? Ethical, Existential, and Transgenerational Dimensions." Read it #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...

#ArticleSnapshot📸: Zachary Conn's #HistoryAndEthics contribution is titled "A House with Exposed Beams: Inquiry-Based Learning and Historians' Ethical Responsibilities as Scholar-Teachers." Read it #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...

#ArticleSnapshot📸: Q. Edward Wang's #HistoryAndEthics contribution is titled "Truthful Is Moral: Practicing Ethical Responsibility in Chinese Historiography." Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...

#ArticleSnapshot📸: Anna Clark's "What Is History in a Settler Colonial Society?" for #HistoryAndEthics "explores how History has been part of the architecture of colonization, policing whose stories can be told and by whom." Read it #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...

#ArticleSnapshot📸: Taynna M. Marino's #HistoryAndEthics article, "How Should Historians Empathize?," discusses the relationship between empathy and ethics in historical scholarship. Read it #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...

#ArticleSnapshot📸: Jonas Ahlskog's #HistoryAndEthics theme issue article "explores the relation between testimony and history by considering the recent 'ethical turn' toward experience and memory in historical research." Read it #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...

#ArticleSnapshot📸: Herman Paul's "A Virtue Ethics for Historians: Prospects and Limitations" appears in our December 2024 #HistoryAndEthics theme issue. Read it #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...

OUT NOW: History and Theory's December 2024 theme issue, "History and Ethics," edited by Andre de Lemos Freixo and João Ohara! 🎉 Read the issue here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14682303...

Come join us at @histandtheojrnl.bsky.social for all the latest news about publications and events for theory and philosophy of history! historyandtheory.org

Ian Hunter reviews Mike Sonenscher’s After Kant: “This anti-contextual method is responsible for the rich mosaic of intellectual fragments that the reader encounters in this engaging book.” @histandtheojrnl.bsky.social @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social

Excited to finally have this article @histandtheojrnl.bsky.social see the light of day (!). Here, Alice Would and I examine the historical roots of the idea of 'ability' by thinking with dark-dwelling animals, disability studies, and environmental history: doi.org/10.1111/hith...

#ArticleSnapshot📸: Ovidiu Stanciu's "Narrativity, Experience, and Meaning" is a review essay on Historia fallida, by Kalle Pihlainen, translated by Rodrigo Zamorano. Read it #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...

#ArticleSnapshot📸: Lucian Hölscher's "What Are 'Temporalities' in History?" is a review essay on Time and Power: Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years’ War to the Third Reich, by Christopher Clark. Read it #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...

#ArticleSnapshot 📸: Chris Lorenz's "If You Could Read My Mind: On the History of Mind and Other Matters" is a review essay on The Primacy of Method in Historical Research by Jonas Ahlskog. Read it #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...

#ArticleSnapshot📸: In "Painting History: Picture, Witness, and Ancient Historiography," Luuk de Boer examines "the equation of historiography with painting and the identification of the historiographer with the painter." Read it #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...

#ArticleSnapshot📸: Lawrence Rosen's "Validating Historical Interpretations: An Approach from Cultural Anthropology" discusses the criteria historians and anthropologists use to validate their interpretations. Read this #OpenAccess article here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...

#ArticleSnapshot📸: Luigi Alonzi's "Language—History—Presence" "deals with the use of language in historiography and with this usage's implications for the conception of history and the historiographical operation/practice." Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...

#ArticleSnapshot📸: In "The Eye and the Mind," D. Graham Burnett explores "the historiographical significance of Mary Cheves West Perky's counterintuitive findings concerning the human imagination and the phenomenon of #ReverseHallucination." Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...

#ArticleSnapshot📸: Read Johanna Drucker's "Inventing the Alphabet: The Technologies of Knowledge Production" in our September issue. This article is a revised version of the lecture Drucker delivered at @RemarqueNYU in Feb. 2024 as the 9th H&T lecture. doi.org/10.1111/hith...

#ArticleSnapshot📸: Our September 2024 issue includes Zoltán Boldizsár Simon and Marek Tamm's "The Opening of Historical Futures," which is their conclusion to the #HistoricalFutures Iterations series. Read this #OpenAccess article here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our September 2024 issue is out now! Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14682303...

Exceeding all expectations, the Historical Futures project is in its 4th year already - and we thought that it’s time to bring it to a conclusion Read our project-closing essay in Early View in @histandtheojrnl.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

#ArticleSnapshot📸: Juhan Hellerma's #OpenAccess review essay in our June issue, "Making the Past Speak: Acceleration, Resonance, and Presence," focuses on Hartmut Rosa's _Resonance: A Sociology of Our Relationship to the World_. Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...

#ArticleSnapshot📸: Alexandra Lianeri's #OpenAccess review essay in our June issue, "Translation in History and Metahistory," examines Theo Hermans's _Translation and History: A Textbook_. Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...

#ArticleSnapshot📸: Marnie Hughes-Warrington's #OpenAccess review essay in our June 2024 issue discusses Holly Case's _The Age of Questions_. Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...

#ArticleSnapshot 📸: Ekin Erkan's review article, "Beneath Meaning, Orientational Narratives, and Danto's Essentialist Theory of Art," focuses on Noël Carroll's 2021 book, _Arthur Danto's Philosophy of Art: Essays_. Read Erkan's review article here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...