Spring 2017
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Chicago Journal of History
Letter from the Editor-in-Chief
Hansong Li
Letter from a Historian: History and Science, History as Science: Simplification, Modeling and Humility
Clifford Ando, University of Chicago
Fiction and History: Narratives, Contexts and Imagination
Jane Dailey, Ghenwa Hayek, Ada Palmer, Paola Iovene, University of Chicago; David Perry, Dominican University
Divine Love in the Medieval Cosmos
Jack Ford, University College London
A Hindu-Islamic Translation: Retrieving Dara Shikuh's Confluence of the Two Oceans
Doha Tazi Hemida, Columbia University
William Gladstone: Providence and the People, 1838-1865
Jack Dickens, University of Cambridge
Soviet Jewish Emigration and Holocaust Collective Memory
Raya Koreh, Harvard University
A Long Hot Summer: The 1964 Columbia Avenue Race Riot and the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Philadelphia
Hannah Fagin, University of Pennsylvania
Prisons and Floods in the U.S.: Interrogating the Notions of Social and Spatial Control
Hannah Hauptman, Yale University
Fairways, Greens, and Green Space in the American Riviera
Nicholas Stewart, Yale University
Remembering the Reconstruction: An Interview with Kate Masur
Kate Masur, Northwestern University; Sarah Manhardt, University of Chicago
Autumn 2016
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Chicago Journal of History
Letter from the Editor-in-Chief
Hansong Li
Letter from a Historian: History and Truth in the Age of Trump
Jonathan Levy, University of Chicago
Bio-History in the Anthropocene: Interdisciplinary Study on the Past and Present of Human Life
Kyle Harper, University of Oklahoma; Lynn K. Nyhart, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Joanna Radin, Yale University; Julia Thomas, University of Notre Dame; Russell Tuttle, University of Chicago; Jonathan Lyon (moderator), University of Chicago
Humanity and the Great Seas: Conversation with David Abulafia
David Abulafia, University of Cambridge; Hansong Li, University of Chicago
'Seiknes Incurabill': The Evolution of Literary Representations of Leprosy in Medieval and Early Modern English Narratives
Alexandra Houston, Princeton University
From Guslars to Garasanin: Comparing the Influence of Oral Folk Literature on Croatian and Serbian National Movements from 1830 to 1865
Anna M. Walker, Princeton University
Savage Sagebrush and Christian Orchards: Reassessing Wilderness and Civilization on the Harriman Alaska Expedition
Anna Davis, Johns Hopkins University
Lift the Red, Stay in the Black: The Public and Private Economies of Race Ideas at the Carlisle Indian School, 1879-1904
Isaac Stein, University of Chicago
Drinking the Sea Water: Franklin Roosevelt, Polish-Americans, Yalta, and the Downfall of a Civic Elite
Matthew Schweitzer, University of Chicago
Legitimizing National Identity through 'Transnational Existences': Post-war Kosovo and its Relationship with the European Union, 1998-2008
Mirela Kadric, University of Sydney
Ideas in Context: Conversation with Quentin Skinner
Quentin Skinner, Queen Mary University of London; Hansong Li, University of Chicago
Spring 2016
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Chicago Journal of History
Letter from the Editor-in-Chief
Hansong Li
Letter from a Historian
Matthew Briones, University of Chicago
Maturation of a Historian: Conversation with Walter Kaegi
Walter Kaegi, Michael Goodyear, Hansong Li, Kevin Otradovec, University of Chicago
Authorial Voice in Ilkhanid Persian Historiography: Contradiction and Intent in the "Tarikh-e Jahangosha-ye Jovayni"
Darren Wan, University of Chicago
Rivkah bat Meir: Subtle Redefinition of Gender Roles within the Confines of Traditional Jewish Society
Michaela Nakayama Shapiro, Northwestern University
Rationalizing Sex: the Hermaphrodite in Eighteenth Century Medical Writing
Sarah Welz Geselowitzn, Swarthmore College
Workers' Demonstrations and Liberals' Condemnations: the Italian Liberal Press's Coverage of General Strikes, Factory Occupations, and Workers' Self-Defense Groups during the Rise of Fascism, 1919-1922
Ararat Gocmen, Princeton University
Use Your Buying Power for Justice: the League of Women Shoppers and Innocuous Feminist Radicalism 1935-1948
Kathy Higgins, Smith College
Start Here Now: Interview with Constantin Fasolt
Constantin Fasolt, Hansong Li, Paige Pendarvis, University of Chicago
Autumn 2015
Letter from the Editor-in-Chief
Hansong Li
Autonomy or Agency? A Geopolitical Analysis of the Northern and Southern Lakhotas' Political and Military Leadership
Zachary Lewis Barker, University of Pittsburgh
Time Machine: The Westinghouse Time Capsule, the "World of Tomorrow" and the Changing Understanding of Time at the 1939 World's Fair
Evan Stark, Washington University in St. Louis
Synergy in Paradox: Nixon's Policies toward China and the Soviet Union
Preston Thomas, University of Chicago
Conscience, Violence and History: Interview with Annette Becker
Annette Becker, l'Universite de Paris-Nanterre; Hansong Li, (trans.) Paige Pendarvis, University of Chicago
Spring 2015
‘It is Time to Be Leaders Ourselves’: New Orleans Black Radicals in American Political Culture, 1863-1868
Ione Barrows, University of Chicago
The Modern Campus, Chicago Style: Education, Community, and Democracy at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Jake Hamburger, Columbia University
From ‘Beiping’ to ‘Beijing’: Continuity and Change from Re- publican to Communist Beijing Through Tourist Guidebooks
Dake Jungmo Kang, University of Chicago
The Red and the Yellow Star: Soviet-Jewish Memory of the Second World War
Luisa Von Richthofen, Wellseley College
Interview with Tara Zahra
Tara Zahra, University of Chicago
Autumn 2014
Letter from the Editors-in-Chief
Pranav Jain and Thomas Prendergast
'The Delights of a Plunge into the Unknown': Reimagining Children's Adventure Literature in the Nineteenth Century
Claire Arnold, University of Chicago
Black Citizenship on the Whale Ships of Antebellum America
Zoe Beiser, Brown University
"Links to the Present": The Long History of Contested Heritage in Ghana's Slave Castles
Colin Bos, University of Chicago
The Inevitable Collapse of Peace: A Study of the Weaknesses of the Peace of Amiens
Jeffrey P. Lewandrowski, Tulane University
China's Exercise of Realpolitik and 'Containment' during the First and Second Indochina Wars, 1954-1973
Kyuhyun Jo, University of Chicago
Vice in Vauxhall: Debauchery and the Pleasure Garden, 1730-1770
Aidyn P.M. Osgood, Williams College
Autumn 2013
Letter from the Editors-in-Chief
Pranav Jain and Thomas Prendergast
Enduring Identification: Perceptions of the Dutch among the British middling sorts in the late eighteenth century
Timothy Rudnicki, University of Chicago
Behind Closed Doors: Revisiting Air Command's 'Lack of Moral Fiber and Waverer Disposal Policy' and its 'Treatment' of Neurotic Cases, 1941-1945
Christopher Kingdon, University of Chicago
An Interview with Bernard Wasserstein
Bernard Wasserstein, University of Chicago
"And those that are missing": The role and experience of Dr. Sabin's chimpanzees in the polio crusade of the 1950s
Amelia Brackett, New York University
"Undesirable Elements": New York City's Gay Press Before Stonewall, 1960-1969
Ben Miller, New York University
Spring 2013
Letter from the Editors-in-Chief
Thomas Prendergast and Pranav Jain
American Interior Design: How a New American Sense of Style Changed Class Relations
Richard Deulofeut-Manzur, University of Chicago '14
Chicago's Engine Company 21: An Interracial Vision in an Era of Reconstructions, 1872-1900
Amber Bailey, University of Chicago '13
A History of What Was Once Unspoken: Legitimizing Female Experiences of Sexual Harassment through Language and Law
Lilliana Paratore, Reed College '13
Adopting the American Racial Lens: A history of Mexican migration to Chicago from the town of Arandas, Jalisco
Ricardo Alvarez-Pimental, University of Chicago '12