VON RANKE, after turning ninety, keeps cheerfully on with his Universal History ; a score or more of learned men associate themselves in writing the history of a single American town. Which is the ...

Although a core insight of historical institutionalism (HI) is that history affects actors’ beliefs, values and preferences, it is difficult to test these propositions directly. This chapter argues ...

ATLANTA -- David Hochfelder, associate professor of history at the State University of New York at Albany, plans on introducing a new iteration of an undergraduate course this semester with an image: ...

This is a response to Donna Murch’s review of Michael Javen Fortner’s book Black Silent Majority. My book Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment has generated ...

In censuses and surveys in most African countries it has become the practice to estimate informants' age by the method of the historical calendar. This involves an attempt to relate a remembered ...

Comparative Literature Studies, Vol. 10, No. 1 (Mar., 1973), pp. 25-50 (26 pages) Hippolyte Taine's theory of literature and critical method enjoyed a vogue in America during the latter half of the ...

The inks on historical documents can hold many secrets. Its ingredients can help trace trade routes and help understand a work's historical significance. And knowing how the ink breaks down can help ...

The rapid pace of technological advances and the exponential increases in the complexity of global logistics forestall any naïve comparisons of military logistics in past wars to our current logistics ...