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Harvard Historical Studies books. Published in conjunction with the Harvard History Department, this series features excellent first books in history on subjects spanning a range of fields and methodologies that are central to the department’s intellectual and academic mission.
Landscapes of Hope brings together environmental justice and African American history in new ways, reminding us that race must be central both to our debates about environmental injustice and to our general understanding of the environment itself. —Davarian L. Baldwin, author of Chicago’s New Negroes. View More.
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The University of Chicago Department of History 1126 E. 59th Street, Mailbox 47 Chicago, IL 60637 Social Science Research Building, room 222 – Office (773) 834-8178 – Office Telephone (773) 702-7550 – Fax CV Website
Early modern Europe; the Renaissance, with a focus on Italy; the Reformation; longue-durée intellectual and cultural history; postclassical reception of classical philosophy; Renaissance humanism; history of the book, printing, and reading; censorship and information control especially during information revolutions; history of science, religion, a...
My research on intellectual history, or the history of ideas, is my way of exploring how history and thought shape each other over time. The Italian Renaissance is a perfect moment for approaching this question because at that point the ideas about science, religion, and the world that had developed in the Middle Ages suddenly met those of the anci...
I welcome graduate students in the Renaissance and early modern Europe, especially those interested in Italy or France, Rome and Florence, intellectual change, humanism, radicalism, the diffusion of knowledge, the reception of the classics, the history of the book, education, religion, magic, the Church, the role of patronage, and disability & illn...
Italian Renaissance: Dante, Machiavelli and the Wars of Popes and Kings (live-action role-playing course)Censorship during Information RevolutionsPatronage and the Production of CultureFlorence Study Abroad: Living with HistoryReading Lucretius in the Renaissance. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, I Tatti Renaissance Studies Series. 2014. Coauthored with James Hankins. The Recovery of Classical Philosophy in the Renaissance, a Brief Guide. Florence: Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento, 2007. “The Persecution of Renaissance Lucretius Readers Revisited,” in...
— “Writing/Realizing Disability + Power,” Strange Horizons, August 2022. —“The Protagonist Problem,” with Jo Walton, Uncanny Magazine, 2021. —“Censorship and Genre Fiction: Let’s Broaden our Broader Reality.” Uncanny Magazine, May 2020. —"Ada Palmer and the Weird Hand of Progress” profile in Wired Magazine, 2022. —"Why Trump's Decision to Intervene...
Thomas Cleveland Holt (born November 30, 1942) is an American historian, who is the James Westfall Thompson Professor of American and African American History at the University of Chicago. He has produced a number of works on the people and descendants of the African Diaspora.
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind published Scarcity: a History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis (Harvard University Press, 2023).
The Warren Center is a place for the exploration of American history and for the application of historical knowledge to real world challenges. We believe that critical engagement with key issues of the American past is foundational to understanding and making meaning of our contemporary world.
By Kristy Ironside. Harvard Historical Studies, volume 191. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. Pp. xx+300. $45.00. James W. Heinzen
