Historically speaking
Journal Data
| Type | JOURNAL |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press (US) |
| ISSN | 1941-4188 / 1944-6438 |
| Wikidata | Q5774437 |
| OpenAlex | S93779004 |
| MAG | 93779004 |
| Website | http://www.bu.edu/historic/hs.html |
| Total publications | 30 |
| Coverage period | 2002 - 2013 |
| Country | US |
| Language | EN |
| Cited by | 47 |
| h-index | 3 |
| i10-index | 1 |
"Historically Speaking" is a journal of general history, focusing on historical discourse and commentary. While social and cultural history is a related area, this journal's broad scope places it as a cognate humanities venue with regular, but not central, anthropological intersection
American Constitutional Law and Politics · American Environmental and Regional History · American History and Culture · American Political and Social Dynamics · Australian History and Society · Canadian Identity and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies · Economic Theory and Institutions
The Discovery and Consolidation of a Scientific Culture in the West in the Modern Era
The Discovery and Consolidation of a Scientific Culture in the West in the Modern Era Stephen Gaukroger UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY INTELLECTUAL HISTORIAN Stephen Gaukroger is engaged in an ambitious, multivolume historical project on the emergence and consolidation of a scientific culture in the West in the modern era. Two volumes have already appeared: The Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1210 – 1685 (Oxford Uni…
Dreaming and Historical Consciousness
Living with Unintended Consequences
Living with Unintended Consequences Euan Cameron (bio) It is an honor to be invited to respond to Brad Gregory's extraordinary and fascinating new book. The work is phenomenally learned, intricately and ingeniously argued, deliberately provocative, and sometimes exasperating. Let me begin by expressing wholehearted approval and support for a great deal of what Brad Gregory is seeking to achieve in this work. He takes theological ideas and their i…
An Infatuation with Titles
An Infatuation with Titles:Hereditary Privilege and Liberty in the Ear of the American Revolution Trevor Burnard (bio) Michal Jan Rozbicki's exploration of the meanings of liberty in 18th-century British North America is a major achievement. His assertion that we need to look at how Americans understood liberty as relational, with one person's liberty making sense as a privilege extended to them and not to others, is an important challenge to exi…
Age of Fracture
The Uses of American History
The Uses of American History:An Interview with Jill Lepore Randall Stephens Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper '41 professor of American History at Harvard University. Her books on American history and culture include The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity (Knopf, 1998), winner of the Bancroft Prize; Encounters in the New World: A History in Documents (Oxford University Press, 1999); A Is for American: Letters …
Reconsidering the “Long Civil Rights Movement”
The following two essays are adapted from papers given at the Historical Society’s June 2008 conference at the Johns Hopkins University.
Cabeza de Vaca and the Problem of First Encounters
Cabeza de Vaca and the Problem of First Encounters Andrés Reséndez (bio) The Pánfilo de Narváez or Florida expedition issued from Spain (by way of Cuba) in 1527, at a time when only some regions in central Mexico were effectively under Spanish control. Three hundred European men, ten women, a sprinkling of African slaves, and forty-one horses traveled to the Florida peninsula with the intention of exploring and settling it permanently. Yet this c…
Religion and Epidemic Disease
36 Historically Speaking · September/October 2008 late into a lethal pandemic in 2008. Would they perhaps again be searching for an ultimate cause beyond nature? Certainly the initial responses to the AIDS pandemic in the 1980s suggest that they would. Howard Phillips is a professor in the department of historical studies at the University of Cape Town. He is the author of Black October: The Impact of the Spanish Influenza Epidemic of 1918 on Sou…
"A Response to the Commentary on "Abundant History
September/October 2008 Historically Speaking 25 dencewrittenintotheverywarp andwoof of history. ConstanceM. Fureyisassociateprofessorof religious studiesatthe University of Indiana. Sheistheauthor of Erasmus, Contarmi, and the Religious Republic of Letters (Cambridge UniversityPress, 2005). She hasalso writtenarticlesfor'Church History , /AfJournal of Religion, andtheHarvard Theological Review. Fureyiscurrentlyworkingon devotionalpoetryin Renaiss…
Abundant History
12 Historically Speaking September/October 2008 "Abundant History": A Forum* AFEW YEARSAGO, WE RANA FORUM IN THESE PAGES ON of Religion, is widely recognisedas one of the leading scholars of American religious Constantin Fasolt's Limits of History. And in theJuly/August 2008 issue we publishedaseriesof reviews of Manifestos for History. Although verydifferentin detail, both of these exploredthe limits of criticalhistoricalmethodandits epistemol ó…
Anthropology, History, and Clifford Geertz
March/April 2007 Historically Speaking 33 The Legacy of Clifford Geertz: A Roundtable CUFFORD GEERTZ (1926-2006) WAS ONE OF THE LEADING cultural anthropologists of his time. Over his distinguished career, thirty-sixyears of which were spent on thefaculty of the InstituteforAdvancedStudy, he made majorcontributions to socialand cultural theory. Shortly afterhis death in October, we askedseveral historians to comment briefly on Geert^s influence on…
Does Equiano Still Matter
Historically Speaking January/February 2006 Olaudah Equiano, the South Carolinian? A Forum OLAUDAHEQUIANO 'S THE INTERESTING NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF OLAUDAH Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African is widely used in college classrooms to acquaint students with the horrors ofthe transatlantic voyage on slave ships as well as with life in 18thcentury West Africa. As Vincent Carretta notes below, "it is difficult to think ofany historical account of…
Response to Lovejoy, Burnard, and Sensbach
14 Historically Speaking · January/February 2006 Response to Lovejoy, Burnard, and Sensbach Vincent Carretta The three responses elicited by my initial essay fall into two distinct categories . Burnard and Sensbach, coming to opposite conclusions, consider possible implications of the recently discovered evidence in baptismal and naval records that suggest that Equiano may have invented an African birth. Lovejoy, however, challenges the validity …
Globalization and World History
July/August 2004 · Historically Speaking promisingnewinsights, particularlysince differentregional studies still applyrather divergentmethodologies to related historical phenomena . For example, historians ofEurope and East Asia tend to apply different sets of questions to 20th-centurytransformations of political cultures in bothworld regions. However , both in Europe and East Asia certain developments such as the advent of mass media, mass mobil…
Multi-Centrism in History
November/December 2004 · Historically Speaking 27 a two-part concept that included the idea of the "good king" as well as the "witch king." Good kings were virtuous rulers, and promises to lookout for the poor, protect the weak, and serve the communitywere a regular part ofthe oaths that kings swore on their coronations . Their opposites were the wicked kings whoused the same powers both temporaland occult to enlarge their personal wealth and pow…
Finding Africa in World History
November/December 2004 · Historically Speaking 17 tance for the long-term reorganization of societyin Europe and, I believe, also in West Africa. Both societies had to learn to accommodate the initial shockofthe immorality of trade and ofthe "material gains that individuals made from such transactions that violated the fundamental sharing premise of Africa's communal ethos." In general, it seems to me that Miller slights the Muslim presence in Af…
How to Write the History of the World
March 2004 * Historically Speaking How t? Write the History of the World Lauren Benton In one ofJorge Luis Borges's short stories a royal mapmaker is asked to fashion increasingly accurate maps of the kingdom until, finally, he covers the kingdomwith a map. This parable is a warning to all historians but especially to world historians, who maystruggle more than otherswith pressures simply to "cover" time and territory. Reaching beyond mere covera…
Africa in World History and Historiography
1 4 Historically Speaking · November/December 2004 wayI am.7 While I agree with Gadamer that it is always possible to adopt more inclusive positions through cultural conversations, I think it is also consistent with the hermeneutic tradition to feel a commitment to those values that are part ofmy historical horizon and are constitutive of my identity—values that engenderwithin me a prejudicial disposition toward traditions that fail to meet such …
Another World
24Historically Speaking · November/December 2004 Another World Ajay Skaria In his characteristically thought-provoking and wide-ranging essay,Joseph Miller has attempted nothingless than a reformulation ofthe terms on which world history is to be thought. He asks (ifI may restate his argument ): What is this "world" that world history is concerned with? Can another world be thought? AsMiller's essaysuggests, this "world" is conventionally underst…
Comparison and History
38Historically Speaking November/December 2004 Comparison and History Deborah Cohen and Maura O'Connor Viewed from the long perspective ofEuropean history, studies that cross national boundaries are neither new nor necessarily revolutionary. While historical comparisons may be as ancient as Plutarch's ParallelLives, itwas thephilosophes ofthe European Enlightenment who first set out to distinguish various areas of the world based upon customs, la…
Beyond Blacks, Bondage, and Blame
November/December 2004 Historically Speaking Africa and World History: A Forum THANKFULLY, HISTORIANS HAVE COMEA LONG WAY from the late Hugh Trevor-Roper's dismissive barb made in 1963: "Perhaps in thefuture there willbesomeAfrican history to teach. But atpresent there is none, or very little: there is only the history ofEurope in Africa." Despite an avalanche ofscholarship over the lastfour decades, however, questions remain about how adequately…
From Psychohistory to New Global History
Globalization without Gunboats
34 Historically Speaking · April 2003 Globalization without Gunboats? Niall Ferguson In November 2002 British foreign secretary Jack Straw made some remarks to the New Statesman magazinewhichseemappositehere: I'm not a Uberai imperialist. There's a lot wrong widi liberalism, widi a capital L, although I am a liberal with a small L. And mere's a lotwrong with imperialism. A lot of the problems we are having to deal widi now are a consequence of ou…
Reconstructions
Abundant History
12 Historically Speaking September/October 2008 "Abundant History": A Forum* AFEW YEARSAGO, WE RANA FORUM IN THESE PAGES ON of Religion, is widely recognisedas one of the leading scholars of American religious Constantin Fasolt's Limits of History. And in theJuly/August 2008 issue we publishedaseriesof reviews of Manifestos for History. Although verydifferentin detail, both of these exploredthe limits of criticalhistoricalmethodandits epistemol ó…
Beyond Blacks, Bondage, and Blame
November/December 2004 Historically Speaking Africa and World History: A Forum THANKFULLY, HISTORIANS HAVE COMEA LONG WAY from the late Hugh Trevor-Roper's dismissive barb made in 1963: "Perhaps in thefuture there willbesomeAfrican history to teach. But atpresent there is none, or very little: there is only the history ofEurope in Africa." Despite an avalanche ofscholarship over the lastfour decades, however, questions remain about how adequately…
A "Religious Turn" in Modern European Historiography
24 Historically Speaking · June 2003 A "Religious Turn" in Modern European Historiography? Thomas Albert Howard In recent decades a promising new historiographical directionhas quiedyopened up. Religionhas resurfaced as a category worthy ofserious investigation byEuropean historians—and not just among medieval or early modern scholars, where religion's fortunes have never really suffered, but most strikinglyamongthose toilinginpresumably more bar…
Dreaming and Historical Consciousness
Does Equiano Still Matter
Historically Speaking January/February 2006 Olaudah Equiano, the South Carolinian? A Forum OLAUDAHEQUIANO 'S THE INTERESTING NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF OLAUDAH Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African is widely used in college classrooms to acquaint students with the horrors ofthe transatlantic voyage on slave ships as well as with life in 18thcentury West Africa. As Vincent Carretta notes below, "it is difficult to think ofany historical account of…
Another World
24Historically Speaking · November/December 2004 Another World Ajay Skaria In his characteristically thought-provoking and wide-ranging essay,Joseph Miller has attempted nothingless than a reformulation ofthe terms on which world history is to be thought. He asks (ifI may restate his argument ): What is this "world" that world history is concerned with? Can another world be thought? AsMiller's essaysuggests, this "world" is conventionally underst…
Anthropology, History, and Clifford Geertz
March/April 2007 Historically Speaking 33 The Legacy of Clifford Geertz: A Roundtable CUFFORD GEERTZ (1926-2006) WAS ONE OF THE LEADING cultural anthropologists of his time. Over his distinguished career, thirty-sixyears of which were spent on thefaculty of the InstituteforAdvancedStudy, he made majorcontributions to socialand cultural theory. Shortly afterhis death in October, we askedseveral historians to comment briefly on Geert^s influence on…
Multi-Centrism in History
November/December 2004 · Historically Speaking 27 a two-part concept that included the idea of the "good king" as well as the "witch king." Good kings were virtuous rulers, and promises to lookout for the poor, protect the weak, and serve the communitywere a regular part ofthe oaths that kings swore on their coronations . Their opposites were the wicked kings whoused the same powers both temporaland occult to enlarge their personal wealth and pow…
How to Write the History of the World
March 2004 * Historically Speaking How t? Write the History of the World Lauren Benton In one ofJorge Luis Borges's short stories a royal mapmaker is asked to fashion increasingly accurate maps of the kingdom until, finally, he covers the kingdomwith a map. This parable is a warning to all historians but especially to world historians, who maystruggle more than otherswith pressures simply to "cover" time and territory. Reaching beyond mere covera…
Africa in World History and Historiography
1 4 Historically Speaking · November/December 2004 wayI am.7 While I agree with Gadamer that it is always possible to adopt more inclusive positions through cultural conversations, I think it is also consistent with the hermeneutic tradition to feel a commitment to those values that are part ofmy historical horizon and are constitutive of my identity—values that engenderwithin me a prejudicial disposition toward traditions that fail to meet such …
Comparison and History
38Historically Speaking November/December 2004 Comparison and History Deborah Cohen and Maura O'Connor Viewed from the long perspective ofEuropean history, studies that cross national boundaries are neither new nor necessarily revolutionary. While historical comparisons may be as ancient as Plutarch's ParallelLives, itwas thephilosophes ofthe European Enlightenment who first set out to distinguish various areas of the world based upon customs, la…
The Origins of the Historical Society
June 2003 · Historically Speaking47 1980 and 1992 El Salvador, with U.S. aid provided under the Reagan Doctrine, defeated the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN). In all these instances the U.S. strategy called for carrots and sticks—aggressive militaryoperations againstthe rebels combined with liberalizing reforms to win over the uncommitted populace. And in all these cases the U.S. and its allies were successful. The glaring except…
Whiteness and the Historians' Imagination
Scholarship on whiteness has grown dramatically over the past decade, affecting nu- merous academic disciplines from literary criticism and American studies to history, sociology, geography, education, and anthropology. Despite its visibility and quantity, the genre has generated few serious historiographical assessments of its rise, development, strengths, and weaknesses. This essay, which critically examines the concept of whiteness and the way…
Globalization without Gunboats
34 Historically Speaking · April 2003 Globalization without Gunboats? Niall Ferguson In November 2002 British foreign secretary Jack Straw made some remarks to the New Statesman magazinewhichseemappositehere: I'm not a Uberai imperialist. There's a lot wrong widi liberalism, widi a capital L, although I am a liberal with a small L. And mere's a lotwrong with imperialism. A lot of the problems we are having to deal widi now are a consequence of ou…
Reconstructions
The Silk Road
September 2003 · Historically Speaking The Silk Road: Part Il AlfredJ. Andrea IN THIS ESSAY'Sfirst installment Alfred J. Andrea consideredthefirstgolden age ofthe Silk Road—the era ofthe Han, Kushan, Parthian, andRoman Empires—andlooked briefly at the early influx ofBuddhism into China following the collapse of the Han dynasty in 220 CE. This second and last installmentpicks up the thread ofBuddhist penetration into China andsurveys the succeedin…
What is History Now
Historically Speaking February 2003 What is History Today? Interviews with David Cannadine and John Gaddis.andan essay by John Lukacs WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO STUDY HISTORY? In his 1961 Trevelyan Lectures at Cambridge University, E. H. Carr asked this question, and his answer, What is History?, isstillwidely readanddebatedtoday. Two recent books examine historical scholarship and method, both drawing inspiration from Carr's classic. DavidCannadine ha…
The Origins of the Historical Society
June 2003 · Historically Speaking47 1980 and 1992 El Salvador, with U.S. aid provided under the Reagan Doctrine, defeated the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN). In all these instances the U.S. strategy called for carrots and sticks—aggressive militaryoperations againstthe rebels combined with liberalizing reforms to win over the uncommitted populace. And in all these cases the U.S. and its allies were successful. The glaring except…
A "Religious Turn" in Modern European Historiography
24 Historically Speaking · June 2003 A "Religious Turn" in Modern European Historiography? Thomas Albert Howard In recent decades a promising new historiographical directionhas quiedyopened up. Religionhas resurfaced as a category worthy ofserious investigation byEuropean historians—and not just among medieval or early modern scholars, where religion's fortunes have never really suffered, but most strikinglyamongthose toilinginpresumably more bar…
Globalization and World History
July/August 2004 · Historically Speaking promisingnewinsights, particularlysince differentregional studies still applyrather divergentmethodologies to related historical phenomena . For example, historians ofEurope and East Asia tend to apply different sets of questions to 20th-centurytransformations of political cultures in bothworld regions. However , both in Europe and East Asia certain developments such as the advent of mass media, mass mobil…
Multi-Centrism in History
November/December 2004 · Historically Speaking 27 a two-part concept that included the idea of the "good king" as well as the "witch king." Good kings were virtuous rulers, and promises to lookout for the poor, protect the weak, and serve the communitywere a regular part ofthe oaths that kings swore on their coronations . Their opposites were the wicked kings whoused the same powers both temporaland occult to enlarge their personal wealth and pow…
Finding Africa in World History
November/December 2004 · Historically Speaking 17 tance for the long-term reorganization of societyin Europe and, I believe, also in West Africa. Both societies had to learn to accommodate the initial shockofthe immorality of trade and ofthe "material gains that individuals made from such transactions that violated the fundamental sharing premise of Africa's communal ethos." In general, it seems to me that Miller slights the Muslim presence in Af…
How to Write the History of the World
March 2004 * Historically Speaking How t? Write the History of the World Lauren Benton In one ofJorge Luis Borges's short stories a royal mapmaker is asked to fashion increasingly accurate maps of the kingdom until, finally, he covers the kingdomwith a map. This parable is a warning to all historians but especially to world historians, who maystruggle more than otherswith pressures simply to "cover" time and territory. Reaching beyond mere covera…
Africa in World History and Historiography
1 4 Historically Speaking · November/December 2004 wayI am.7 While I agree with Gadamer that it is always possible to adopt more inclusive positions through cultural conversations, I think it is also consistent with the hermeneutic tradition to feel a commitment to those values that are part ofmy historical horizon and are constitutive of my identity—values that engenderwithin me a prejudicial disposition toward traditions that fail to meet such …
Another World
24Historically Speaking · November/December 2004 Another World Ajay Skaria In his characteristically thought-provoking and wide-ranging essay,Joseph Miller has attempted nothingless than a reformulation ofthe terms on which world history is to be thought. He asks (ifI may restate his argument ): What is this "world" that world history is concerned with? Can another world be thought? AsMiller's essaysuggests, this "world" is conventionally underst…
Comparison and History
38Historically Speaking November/December 2004 Comparison and History Deborah Cohen and Maura O'Connor Viewed from the long perspective ofEuropean history, studies that cross national boundaries are neither new nor necessarily revolutionary. While historical comparisons may be as ancient as Plutarch's ParallelLives, itwas thephilosophes ofthe European Enlightenment who first set out to distinguish various areas of the world based upon customs, la…
Beyond Blacks, Bondage, and Blame
November/December 2004 Historically Speaking Africa and World History: A Forum THANKFULLY, HISTORIANS HAVE COMEA LONG WAY from the late Hugh Trevor-Roper's dismissive barb made in 1963: "Perhaps in thefuture there willbesomeAfrican history to teach. But atpresent there is none, or very little: there is only the history ofEurope in Africa." Despite an avalanche ofscholarship over the lastfour decades, however, questions remain about how adequately…
From Psychohistory to New Global History
Does Equiano Still Matter
Historically Speaking January/February 2006 Olaudah Equiano, the South Carolinian? A Forum OLAUDAHEQUIANO 'S THE INTERESTING NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF OLAUDAH Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African is widely used in college classrooms to acquaint students with the horrors ofthe transatlantic voyage on slave ships as well as with life in 18thcentury West Africa. As Vincent Carretta notes below, "it is difficult to think ofany historical account of…
Response to Lovejoy, Burnard, and Sensbach
14 Historically Speaking · January/February 2006 Response to Lovejoy, Burnard, and Sensbach Vincent Carretta The three responses elicited by my initial essay fall into two distinct categories . Burnard and Sensbach, coming to opposite conclusions, consider possible implications of the recently discovered evidence in baptismal and naval records that suggest that Equiano may have invented an African birth. Lovejoy, however, challenges the validity …
Anthropology, History, and Clifford Geertz
March/April 2007 Historically Speaking 33 The Legacy of Clifford Geertz: A Roundtable CUFFORD GEERTZ (1926-2006) WAS ONE OF THE LEADING cultural anthropologists of his time. Over his distinguished career, thirty-sixyears of which were spent on thefaculty of the InstituteforAdvancedStudy, he made majorcontributions to socialand cultural theory. Shortly afterhis death in October, we askedseveral historians to comment briefly on Geert^s influence on…
Religion and Epidemic Disease
36 Historically Speaking · September/October 2008 late into a lethal pandemic in 2008. Would they perhaps again be searching for an ultimate cause beyond nature? Certainly the initial responses to the AIDS pandemic in the 1980s suggest that they would. Howard Phillips is a professor in the department of historical studies at the University of Cape Town. He is the author of Black October: The Impact of the Spanish Influenza Epidemic of 1918 on Sou…
"A Response to the Commentary on "Abundant History
September/October 2008 Historically Speaking 25 dencewrittenintotheverywarp andwoof of history. ConstanceM. Fureyisassociateprofessorof religious studiesatthe University of Indiana. Sheistheauthor of Erasmus, Contarmi, and the Religious Republic of Letters (Cambridge UniversityPress, 2005). She hasalso writtenarticlesfor'Church History , /AfJournal of Religion, andtheHarvard Theological Review. Fureyiscurrentlyworkingon devotionalpoetryin Renaiss…
Abundant History
12 Historically Speaking September/October 2008 "Abundant History": A Forum* AFEW YEARSAGO, WE RANA FORUM IN THESE PAGES ON of Religion, is widely recognisedas one of the leading scholars of American religious Constantin Fasolt's Limits of History. And in theJuly/August 2008 issue we publishedaseriesof reviews of Manifestos for History. Although verydifferentin detail, both of these exploredthe limits of criticalhistoricalmethodandits epistemol ó…
Reconsidering the “Long Civil Rights Movement”
The following two essays are adapted from papers given at the Historical Society’s June 2008 conference at the Johns Hopkins University.
Cabeza de Vaca and the Problem of First Encounters
Cabeza de Vaca and the Problem of First Encounters Andrés Reséndez (bio) The Pánfilo de Narváez or Florida expedition issued from Spain (by way of Cuba) in 1527, at a time when only some regions in central Mexico were effectively under Spanish control. Three hundred European men, ten women, a sprinkling of African slaves, and forty-one horses traveled to the Florida peninsula with the intention of exploring and settling it permanently. Yet this c…
Age of Fracture