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 ...

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Britain and the American Dream; By Peter Moore; Farrar, Straus, and Giroux; 592 pp., $35.00. Franklin is the central character in Peter Moore’s new book, ...

The Mind of the Master Class is a masterpiece. In The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders’ Worldview, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene Genovese embark upon a task ...

History is more than a collection of facts; it also involves reading against the grain, critique, periodization, and debates. Historians dedicate immense effort to uncovering the interconnected ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reviewed by Rudolph Ware III in Journal of African history (Cambridge, England) 59 (3) 2018, pages 530-532 (DT1.J858 AFA). Reviewed by Souleyman Bachir Diagne in African studies review (Piscataway, NJ ...

C hristopher Rufo, the architect of the conservative legislative campaign against perceived left-wing indoctrination in schools and colleges across the country and a member of the Board of Trustees of ...