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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Historically Speaking.daily12026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 1 (1999) - vol. 14 (2013)Latest Articles: Historically SpeakingTWOProject MUSE®Historically Speaking1944-64381941-4188Latest articles in Historically Speaking. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Winston Churchill and the Literary History of Politics
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/539697
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In February 2002, when the world was debating what should be done about Iraq, Europeans reached for a metaphor they like to apply to Americans. President Bush and his advisors, they protested, were behaving like Hollywood cowboys. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, R. James Woolsey, the former director of the CIA, accepted that label as a badge of pride. Yes, he agreed, you could compare us to Gary Cooper in High Noon (his favorite movie). When evildoers descended on his town, only he was willing to stand up to them. His neighbors all turned out to be appeasers or pacifists or cowards or potential collaborators, but the marshal wouldn’t “give up doing his duty just because everyone else found excuses to stay out
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/441/image/coversmallWinston Churchill and the Literary History of Politics2014-03-15text/htmlen-USWinston Churchill and the Literary History of Politics2014-03-152014TWOProject MUSE®334202026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002014-03-15Silver and Segregation
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/539696
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The early 1890s saw the intersection of the two most divisive political issues of the 19th century: race relations and the currency. An effort to protect the voting rights of southern blacks and another to preserve the gold standard gave rise to an alliance between Silverites and Segregationists that influenced public life in the United States well into the 20th century.Although the Compromise of 1877 terminated Reconstruction, it did not settle the questions of what race relations and politics would look like in the postwar South. Many northern Republicans expected southern Democrats to respect the rights of African Americans, and at least a few of the latter promised to do so. African Americans often voted and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/441/image/coversmallSilver and Segregation2014-03-15text/htmlen-USSilver and Segregation2014-03-152014TWOProject MUSE®233702026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002014-03-15Winston Churchill and Almighty God
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/539698
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Winston Churchill is not remembered as a particularly religious figure.1 He did not attend worship services regularly, choosing rather to grace the cathedrals only for state occasions and rites of passage. The Bible he read merely “out of curiosity” and discussions of Church dogma were, safe to say, near the bottom of his to-do list.2 Furthermore, Churchill entered into a period of anti-religious fervor during his early twenties. His attitude mellowed as he aged, but the skepticism he adopted then never fully dissipated. It would appear fair to say that, on a strictly intellectual level, Churchill was an agnostic.On the other hand, he remained sympathetic to religious belief and, in particular, to the Christian
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/441/image/coversmallWinston Churchill and Almighty God2014-03-15text/htmlen-USWinston Churchill and Almighty God2014-03-152014TWOProject MUSE®297332026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002014-03-15Liberal Protestantism in 20th-Century America: An Interview with David A. Hollinger
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/539699
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David Hollinger is Preston Hotchkis Professor Emeritus in the department of history at the University of California Berkeley and a former president of the Organization of American Historians. Hollinger has authored a variety of books on American intellectual history, including Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism (Basic Books, 1995) and Science, Jews, and Secular Culture: Studies in Mid-Twentieth-Century American Intellectual History (Princeton University Press, 1998). His most recent book is After Cloven Tongues of Fire (Princeton University Press, 2013). Historically Speaking editor Randall J. Stephens recently spoke to Hollinger about ecumenical Protestantism and the relationship of religion to politics
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/441/image/coversmallLiberal Protestantism in 20th-Century America: An Interview with David A. Hollinger2014-03-15text/htmlen-USLiberal Protestantism in 20th-Century America: An Interview with David A. Hollinger2014-03-152014TWOProject MUSE®178542026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002014-03-15Catastrophe 1914: An Interview with Max Hastings
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/539700
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In This Issue Senior Editor Donald Yerxa Interviews two authors of recently published books on World War I. The first is Sir Max Hastings, author of Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War (Knopf, 2013). Hastings is an award-winning journalist and author of more than twenty books. No stranger to these pages, this is his third interview to appear in Historically Speaking. Yerxa interviewed Hastings in 2004 and 2008 for his two books on the end of World War II in Europe and Asia (Armageddon and Retribution) and on September 11, 2013 for his new book on the early months of World War I.How do you assess responsibility for a regional Balkan crisis erupting into a “general European catastrophe”?We have to be clear that the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/441/image/coversmallCatastrophe 1914: An Interview with Max Hastings2014-03-15text/htmlen-USCatastrophe 1914: An Interview with Max Hastings2014-03-152014TWOProject MUSE®216972026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002014-03-15Television Is Not Radio with Pictures
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/539701
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The Three Essays that Follow Originally were given in abbreviated form in a session at the National Council on Public History meeting that took place in Ottawa, Canada, April 17-20, 2013. The title of the first essay gave the session its name. The authors are, or until recently were, editors of digital editions of notable 18th- and 19th-century writers of letters, diaries, or belles lettres, working at the University of Virginia and the University of South Carolina. The earliest of these editions is the Dolley Madison Papers Digital Edition. The essay on it is first. Following it is an essay on the papers of a mother and daughter, South Carolina planters Eliza Lucas Pinckney and Harriott Pinckney Horry. The
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/441/image/coversmallTelevision Is Not Radio with Pictures2014-03-15text/htmlen-USTelevision Is Not Radio with Pictures2014-03-152014TWOProject MUSE®258352026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002014-03-15Pouring Old Editorial Wine into New Digital Bottles
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/539702
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The Three Essays that Follow Originally were given in abbreviated form in a session at the National Council on Public History meeting that took place in Ottawa, Canada, April 17-20, 2013. The title of the first essay gave the session its name. The authors are, or until recently were, editors of digital editions of notable 18th- and 19th-century writers of letters, diaries, or belles lettres, working at the University of Virginia and the University of South Carolina. The earliest of these editions is the Dolley Madison Papers Digital Edition. The essay on it is first. Following it is an essay on the papers of a mother and daughter, South Carolina planters Eliza Lucas Pinckney and Harriott Pinckney Horry. The
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/441/image/coversmallPouring Old Editorial Wine into New Digital Bottles2014-03-15text/htmlen-USPouring Old Editorial Wine into New Digital Bottles2014-03-152014TWOProject MUSE®307832026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002014-03-15The Changing Production and Consumption of Historical and Literary Texts: The View from the Simms Initiatives
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/539703
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The Three Essays that Follow Originally were given in abbreviated form in a session at the National Council on Public History meeting that took place in Ottawa, Canada, April 17-20, 2013. The title of the first essay gave the session its name. The authors are, or until recently were, editors of digital editions of notable 18th- and 19th-century writers of letters, diaries, or belles lettres, working at the University of Virginia and the University of South Carolina. The earliest of these editions is the Dolley Madison Papers Digital Edition. The essay on it is first. Following it is an essay on the papers of a mother and daughter, South Carolina planters Eliza Lucas Pinckney and Harriott Pinckney Horry. The
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/441/image/coversmallThe Changing Production and Consumption of Historical and Literary Texts: The View from the Simms Initiatives2014-03-15text/htmlen-USThe Changing Production and Consumption of Historical and Literary Texts: The View from the Simms Initiatives2014-03-152014TWOProject MUSE®433482026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002014-03-15The Invention of the American Meal: An Interview with Abigail Carroll
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/539704
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In Recent Years the History of Food has become a major scholarly enterprise. A welcome addition to this expanding literature is Abigail Carroll’s Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal (Basic Books, 2013). Carroll focuses more on how we eat than what we eat. She reveals that our eating patterns have never been stable and that our current eating habits are relatively recent inventions. Carroll is an author and food historian who has taught in the gastronomy program at Boston University and has published articles in a variety of publications, including the New York Times. She holds a Ph.D. in American studies from Boston University and makes her home in Vermont. Senior editor Donald A. Yerxa interviewed
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/441/image/coversmallThe Invention of the American Meal: An Interview with Abigail Carroll2014-03-15text/htmlen-USThe Invention of the American Meal: An Interview with Abigail Carroll2014-03-152014TWOProject MUSE®186172026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002014-03-15The Genesis of Global Crisis
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/539705
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Geoffrey Parker’s Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century (Yale University Press, 2013) is one of the most important history books of the last year. It has been widely heralded as an extraordinary scholarly achievement. Parker makes the case for a link between climate change and the worldwide catastrophe that occurred 350 years ago. We asked Parker to begin our forum with an account on the book’s long gestation. Then three prominent scholars, Kenneth Pomeranz, J.R. McNeill, and Jack Goldstone, comment on Global Crisis, followed by Parker’s rejoinder.I remember as if it were yesterday the moment when I became interested in the Global Crisis. I had read while an undergraduate the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/441/image/coversmallThe Genesis of Global Crisis2014-03-15text/htmlen-USThe Genesis of Global Crisis2014-03-152014TWOProject MUSE®138332026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002014-03-15Weather, War, and Welfare: Persistence and Change in Geoffrey Parker’s Global Crisis
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/539706
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Geoffrey Parker’s Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century (Yale University Press, 2013) is one of the most important history books of the last year. It has been widely heralded as an extraordinary scholarly achievement. Parker makes the case for a link between climate change and the worldwide catastrophe that occurred 350 years ago. We asked Parker to begin our forum with an account on the book’s long gestation. Then three prominent scholars, Kenneth Pomeranz, J.R. McNeill, and Jack Goldstone, comment on Global Crisis, followed by Parker’s rejoinder.Geoffrey Parker’s Global Crisis is a landmark book for environmental history and for world history. In part, this is because of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/441/image/coversmallWeather, War, and Welfare: Persistence and Change in Geoffrey Parker’s Global Crisis2014-03-15text/htmlen-USWeather, War, and Welfare: Persistence and Change in Geoffrey Parker’s Global Crisis2014-03-152014TWOProject MUSE®390212026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002014-03-15Maunder Minimum and Parker Maximum
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/539707
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Geoffrey Parker’s Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century (Yale University Press, 2013) is one of the most important history books of the last year. It has been widely heralded as an extraordinary scholarly achievement. Parker makes the case for a link between climate change and the worldwide catastrophe that occurred 350 years ago. We asked Parker to begin our forum with an account on the book’s long gestation. Then three prominent scholars, Kenneth Pomeranz, J.R. McNeill, and Jack Goldstone, comment on Global Crisis, followed by Parker’s rejoinder.Of several remarkable things about Global Crisis, the first to note is its heft. The events it describes were weighty, and so is
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/441/image/coversmallMaunder Minimum and Parker Maximum2014-03-15text/htmlen-USMaunder Minimum and Parker Maximum2014-03-152014TWOProject MUSE®191792026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002014-03-15Climate Lessons from History
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/539708
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Geoffrey Parker’s Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century (Yale University Press, 2013) is one of the most important history books of the last year. It has been widely heralded as an extraordinary scholarly achievement. Parker makes the case for a link between climate change and the worldwide catastrophe that occurred 350 years ago. We asked Parker to begin our forum with an account on the book’s long gestation. Then three prominent scholars, Kenneth Pomeranz, J.R. McNeill, and Jack Goldstone, comment on Global Crisis, followed by Parker’s rejoinder.In the annual Jewish celebration of Passover, which commemorates the exodus from Egypt, families give thanks to God for the many
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/441/image/coversmallClimate Lessons from History2014-03-15text/htmlen-USClimate Lessons from History2014-03-152014TWOProject MUSE®226092026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002014-03-15Response
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/539709
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Geoffrey Parker’s Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century (Yale University Press, 2013) is one of the most important history books of the last year. It has been widely heralded as an extraordinary scholarly achievement. Parker makes the case for a link between climate change and the worldwide catastrophe that occurred 350 years ago. We asked Parker to begin our forum with an account on the book’s long gestation. Then three prominent scholars, Kenneth Pomeranz, J.R. McNeill, and Jack Goldstone, comment on Global Crisis, followed by Parker’s rejoinder.Jack Goldstone’s characteristically generous verdict on my various historical labors—Dayenu—also applies to the three comments
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/441/image/coversmallResponse2014-03-15text/htmlen-USResponse2014-03-152014TWOProject MUSE®153902026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002014-03-15A Combat History of the Great War: An Interview with Peter Hart
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/539710
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In Our Second Interview with an Author of a Recently published book on World War I, senior editor Donald Yerxa asks Peter Hart to comment on his The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War (Oxford University Press, 2013). Hart is oral historian at the Imperial War Museum in London. He is the author of a number of books on World War I, including The Somme: The Darkest Hour on the Western Front (Pegasus, 2009); 1918: A Very British Victory (Phoenix, 2010); and Gallipoli (Oxford University Press, 2011). Yerxa interviewed Hart in November 2013.There are a number of notions about the war that persist in the popular understanding and, to a lesser degree, in the academic literature. Would you speak briefly to
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/441/image/coversmallA Combat History of the Great War: An Interview with Peter Hart2014-03-15text/htmlen-USA Combat History of the Great War: An Interview with Peter Hart2014-03-152014TWOProject MUSE®209532026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002014-03-15Jewish History and Education: A Review Essay
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/539711
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From the 1960s up to the 1980s, historians in the United States, particularly younger ones, eagerly borrowed intellectual tools from the analytic and quantitative social sciences. Inspired by Marxist social and economic history in Britain, by the Malthusian demography of the Annales school in France, and by sociological analyses of social mobility and contentious politics in America, they took E. P. Thompson, Lawrence Stone, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, and Charles Tilly as their intellectual models and viewed their own discipline as a social science. They studied the social sciences, flocked to the summer program at the Newberry Library in Chicago to learn quantitative methods, and paid close attention to the history
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/441/image/coversmallJewish History and Education: A Review Essay2014-03-15text/htmlen-USJewish History and Education: A Review Essay2014-03-152014TWOProject MUSE®158232026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002014-03-15Töchter of Feminism: Germany and the Modern Woman Artist
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/539712
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It long ago caught my attention that in the early 20th century—a period in art when Paris reigned supreme—few modern women artists were French. Overwhelmingly, the women artists of this period were connected to Germany, rather than to Paris or London. This was so whether they were Expressionists, Cubists, Dadaists, Constructivists, or Surrealists [Figure 1].Either these women were themselves native Germans, such as Käthe Kollwitz, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Hannah Höch, Gabriele Münter, Clara Rilke-Westhoff, and Renée Sintenis, or they were schooled in Germany, as were the Americans Florine Stettheimer, Katherine Dreier, and Louise Nevelson (all in Munich), the Ukrainian Sonia Terk-Delaunay (in Karlsruhe), and the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/441/image/coversmallTöchter of Feminism: Germany and the Modern Woman Artist2014-03-15text/htmlen-USTöchter of Feminism: Germany and the Modern Woman Artist2014-03-152014TWOProject MUSE®235142026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002014-03-15