Intellectual History

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Alice standing inside a clear bubble in a forest with mushrooms around the bubble
The Very Modern Alice in Wonderland
Fourth of July celebration in Philadelphia, 1819.
The United States: Democracy or Republic?
The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington D.C. (Image by Eric E Johnson)
Originalism’s Historical Problems: The Supreme Court’s Embrace of a Controversial Theory
Ukrainian refugees sheltering beneath a bridge in Kyiv, March 5, 2022.
“The Tragedy Has Never Left Us.” On the War in Ukraine
Judas kissing Jesus
The Gospel of Judas: The Rediscovery of the Earliest Gnostic Gospel
Motorcycles lined up on Main St. in Sturgis, South Dakota, 2014.
“Is the rally really worth it?” The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and the Costs of Neoliberalism
Cover of Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders by Dennis C. Rasmussen
Such a Disappointment
The caryatids of the Erechtheum at the Acropolis.
Humans Have Always Lived in a World of Many Worlds
Cover of Science under Fire Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America by Andrew Jewett.
Science Beseiged
A depiction of the burning of Louisa Mabree, a French midwife and convicted witch, in a cage filled with black cats
The Rise of Freethinkers
Sir Christopher Wren
The Society That Started It All: The Origins of Modern Science
An art exhibition, probably in Moscow in 1964. Taken by Thomas T. Hammond during his travels in the Soviet Union.
When the Soviets Domesticated the West
This postcard depicts a recreation of the Arbella, the ship that carried John Winthrop and his fellow Puritans to present-day Massachusetts.
From Forgotten Phrase to American Myth
The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks' declaration from Flag Day 1919 that forbade membership in the organization to anarchists, Industrial Workers of the World, Bolsheviks, and other organizations perceived as unpatriotic.
Sanitizing American Tradition
In 2011, thousands of ultra-nationalist demonstrators took to the streets of Moscow, armed with tsarist insignia and shouting the anti-immigrant chant "Let's give Russia back to the Russians!"
Russia’s Lost Empire
H.G. Wells’s novel, War of the Worlds, described hissing, tentacled, tripodal invaders from Mars.
Orson Welles’s “War of the Worlds” Radio Broadcast
Zombie scene from the 1968 film, Night of the Living Dead.
Top Ten Origins: Zombies: The Undead Shuffle
Alt-right protestors in Berkley, CA in 2017.
Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts: How Neo-Nazis and Ancient Greeks Met in Charlottesville
A memorial dedicated to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War (1941-45) in Yaroslavl.
From Kulikovo Field to Kursk: Russia’s Forever War
“Aux amateurs de physique.” Likewise portraying the Tuileries flight, this cartoon mocks the unwashed masses who wished to see the spectacle without a ticket, but the scaling of the garden walls also illustrates how the balloon as a “people-machine” ignited the determination of the poorer, disempowered social strata to overcome restraints imposed on them by the authoritarian regime.
Public Perceptions: Ballooning and Political Culture
Yale students leaving class in the 1950s.
From Fat Cats to Egg Heads: The Changing American "Elite"
Entrance gate of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, "Work Sets You Free," 2013
At the Movies: “Canaries,” A Review of Denial
William Shatner as Captain Kirk and Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock pose behind a model of the starship Enterprise.
Star Trek
This is the logo of the Heaven's Gate cult.
Gullible Americans?