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Earl Pomeroy, Historian's Historian
Pacific Historical Review, 1987Anyone who uses Earl Pomeroy's scholarly works to assess his standing in the historical profession will be initially overwhelmed by both the distinction and variety of his contributions. As the author of the influential volume, The Territories and the United States, 1861-1890 (1947), he has been acknowledged as the father of a "federal school" of ...
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Nationalism and the Historians*
International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 1992Abstract The history of nationalism is as much a history of its interlocutors as of the ideology and movement itself. Exactly because it appears so protean and seems so elusive, nationalism reveals itself only in its various forms, or rather the forms given to us by its proponents and critics.
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A Historian/Historian of Religions’ Response
Journal of World Christianity, 2020ABSTRACT As a historian-cum-historian of religion, I welcome the fine collection of essays in this special issue of the journal, contributed by a promising cohort of emerging ethnographers of World Christianity. As a non-ethnographer, I employ as a baseline measure of their endeavors the characteristic historiography of the field, in ...
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Historians Writing about Historians
Monumenta Serica, 2019This article takes three famous historians writing about historians and history-writing as its subject, considering Fan Ye’s work in light of Liu Zhiji’s understanding of history and Fan Ye’s writi...
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Rethinking History, 2014
This introduction to my work seeks to account for the kind of history that I practice, and outline exactly why I think particular modes of investigation, types of historiographical practice and iterations of historical engagement will provide us with new insight into the way in which history works in popular culture.
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This introduction to my work seeks to account for the kind of history that I practice, and outline exactly why I think particular modes of investigation, types of historiographical practice and iterations of historical engagement will provide us with new insight into the way in which history works in popular culture.
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2014
The conditions for the practice of the historian’s craft have changed over the last 30 years or so, and they continue to change in front of our eyes. The convenient formula of crisis has often recurred: one has spoken of the “crisis” of history, of history “disoriented” while our relationship to time has been day after day transformed.
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The conditions for the practice of the historian’s craft have changed over the last 30 years or so, and they continue to change in front of our eyes. The convenient formula of crisis has often recurred: one has spoken of the “crisis” of history, of history “disoriented” while our relationship to time has been day after day transformed.
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2019
Are political leaders known for their distinct historical consciousness wiser than others? And are rulers famous for their wisdom notable for their historical consciousness? To answer these questions, I identify political leaders with a distinct historical consciousness and, within this group, those with a reputation for wisdom – in practice, Nobel ...
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Are political leaders known for their distinct historical consciousness wiser than others? And are rulers famous for their wisdom notable for their historical consciousness? To answer these questions, I identify political leaders with a distinct historical consciousness and, within this group, those with a reputation for wisdom – in practice, Nobel ...
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The Cambridge Classical Journal, 2009
In ‘the only coherent piece of autobiography which we possess from Horace's pen’, as Fraenkel has called it, the poet wrote these famous lines (Epist.2.2.49–52):unde simul primum me dimisere Philippi,decisis humilem pinnis inopemque paterni 50et laris et fundi paupertas impulit audaxut uersus facerem.As soon as Philippi discharged me thence, poverty ...
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In ‘the only coherent piece of autobiography which we possess from Horace's pen’, as Fraenkel has called it, the poet wrote these famous lines (Epist.2.2.49–52):unde simul primum me dimisere Philippi,decisis humilem pinnis inopemque paterni 50et laris et fundi paupertas impulit audaxut uersus facerem.As soon as Philippi discharged me thence, poverty ...
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Historians and friends: reflections on some contemporary historians
History of European Ideas, 2019This article is based on the text of a talk at the University of Athens in October 2018, in which I drew brief cameo portraits of five historians who inspired me and whose lives I admire: David Her...
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Invitation to historians: History, the historian, and an autobiography
Rethinking History, 2010Drawing on perspectives he developed in studying other historians' autobiographies, Jeremy Popkin explores the circumstances that led him to become a professional historian, and the consequences of being a fourth-generation autobiographer. His parents, academics themselves, encouraged his intellectual propensities, as did the atmosphere of the post ...
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