For most of the last 18 months, Donald Trump has been portrayed as a clown, a showman, an opportunist, a faux conservative, a political naïf, and an egomaniac bent on nothing but power and glory—but ...

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 ...

Today the study of ideas figures prominently not only in history departments but also across the humanities. Scholars have recovered from the misplaced populism that once trashed great books as if ...

What the noes, whatever their numbers, really have now … is a monopoly on legitimate forms of knowledge about the natural world. They have this monopoly for the same reason that computer manufacturers ...

For a long time, modern European intellectual historians could rest content with the thought that they were the cosmopolitans in their guild, blissfully free of the nationalizing defaults of their ...

helsinki.fi/sites/default/files/atoms/files/intellectual_history_archive_2016.1_whatmore_0.pdf" target="_blank">Richard Whatmore, THE STATE OF INTELLECTUAL HISTORY ...

Medieval Timbuktu was a wealthy city whose great libraries allowed it to flourish as a center of learning and scholarship. Kane’s compelling intellectual history of West Africa places Timbuktu within ...