History of Ideas

The notion that public intellectuals in the US are in decline has again become fashionable with their portrayal as trapped between Academe and the ...

Decades of violence and chaos have generated a political and intellectual hysteria-ranging from imperial atavism to paranoia about invading or hect...

The Mongol invasions in the first half of the thirteenth century led to profound and shattering changes to the historical trajectory of Islamic Wes...

Like No Other: Exceptionalism and Nativism in Early Modern Japan probes the association of the early modern Japanese intellectual institution calle...

Gary Cox guides us through 42 of the most misunderstood, misquoted, provocative and significant quotes in the history of philosophy providing a wit...

Anyone who has encountered costumed workers at a living history museum may well have wondered what their jobs are like, churning butter or firing m...

Since its founding in 1846 for the increase and diffusion of knowledge, the Smithsonian Institution has been an important feature of the American c...

A riveting, exemplary tale of the great cultural swerve known as the Renaissance.WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2012Almost six hundre...

Books That Changed the World tells the fascinating stories behind 50 books that, in ways great and small, have changed the course of human history....

Derided by the Right as dangerous and by the Left as spineless, Barack Obama puzzles observers. In Reading Obama, James T. Kloppenberg reveals the ...