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Dannelle Gutarra Cordero's expansive study incorporates writers, cultural figures and intellectuals
Conventional wisdom holds that tradition and history meant little to nineteenth-century American Pro
In Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism after Darwin (Duke UP, 2022), Donovan O. Schaefer
The way we think about history can affect our belief that we can change it.Guests Jo Guldi, Associat
The last several decades have seen a mass consolidation of wealth among a few, the rest of the world
Tracing practical reason from its origins to its modern and contemporary permutations, the Greek dis
Professor Matthew Thomas returns to explain how we can place the Gospels in time and context using b
The essential handbook for doing historical research in the twenty-first century The Princeton Guide
A revolutionary new theory and call to action on animal rights, ethics, and law from the renowned ph
In this episode from the Institute’s Vault, we hear the1982 Gallatin Lecture, in which Sir Edmund Le
The marginalisation of Black voices from the academy is a problem in the Western world. But Black St
"History recalls Wallace’s inaugural address as a set piece in the larger drama of defending Souther
Western interpretations of the Ottoman age of reform and the Turkish Republic often evaluate these h
At thirteen, Ed Cohen was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease—a chronic, incurable condition that nearly
When T. S. Eliot published The Waste Land in 1922, it put the thirty-four-year-old author on a path
Matthew Thomas, theologian and biblical scholar, explains how the Bible got to be the Bible, how con
In this week’s episode from the Institute’s Vault, we hear a lecture on the revival of narrative in
In this interview, she discusses her book, Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History (Oxfo
Pedro Lebrón Ortis's book The Philosophy of Marronage (Filosofía del cimarronaje) theorizes the broa
“The Little Mermaid” has become popular around the world since the Danish author Hans Christian Ande
