Empires are not the only entities that rise and fall. So too are academic fields of study. When I was a doctoral student, many of the foremost U.S. historians were intellectual historians: David Brion ...

WATER and the science of Physiology are both good things. But water is one thing to drink, and another to be drowned in. In like manner, though Physiology is a large and noble science and a yet larger ...

Dorothy Ross, pioneering historian of the origins of modern social science and a professor emerita in the Johns Hopkins University Department of History, died last week. She was 87. Ross's research ...

Pre-eminent historian J.G.A. Pocock, whose erudite presence has towered for generations at the intersection of intellectual history, history of political thought, and history of law, died in Baltimore ...

Jay first chronicled this group in his 1973 book The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute for Social Research, 1923-50. He is still associated closely with that ...

Prof. Emeritus Paul Mendes-Flohr, a leading University of Chicago scholar of intellectual history in modernity, modern Jewish thought and German-Jewish intellectual life, died Oct. 24 at the age of 83 ...

M. Antoni J. Ucerler, S.J. Professor Ucerler is a Jesuit priest, an historian of premodern Japan, and Director of the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at Boston College. He is also ...

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This week, HarperCollins will publish a new work by the conservative intellectual Richard Hanania. Titled The Origins of Woke, it bills itself as the “definitive” account of the rise of identity ...

Philosopher, theologian and former presidential candidate Cornel West spoke on intellectual history in a lecture to students in the Structured Liberal Education (SLE) program at Florence Moore Hall ...