NEWSLETTER 375: On the Problem of Orthogonality and Alignment

How Schliemann Made Archaeology Scientific: A Just-So Story

On the Formalization and Mechanization of Human Thought

Jacques Le Goff on the Perils of Periodization

A Philosophy of History Manifesto

NEWSLETTER 373: ASI Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born

Jessie Weston and the Cambridge Ritualists

The Earthrise and Blue Marble Photographs

The Alexander Counterfactual

A Paragraph of Michel de Montaigne

Winckelmann on Noble Simplicity and Quiet Grandeur

Re-Founding History as Big History

Blaise Pascal’s Night of Fire

Voltaire and the Origins of Modern Philosophy of History

Frederick Jackson Turner and the Frontier Thesis

Saint Augustine’s Other Philosophy of History

Weyl’s Proper Time, Lived Time, and Metaphysical Time

The Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755

The Battle of the Milvian Bridge

The Modernity of Philippe de Commines

Foucault’s Archaeologies of the Human Sciences

Kahler’s Bottom-Up Approach to Meaning in History

Sputnik at the Beginning of the Space Age

Revisiting Mesohistory in Gregorovius

The Siege of the Acropolis and the Destruction of the Parthenon

Dresden in the Augustan Age

The War Triptych of Otto Dix

Adorno on the Possibility of a Philosophy of History without Meaning

Fall of the Western Roman Empire

Koyré’s Platonistic Philosophy of the History of Science

Max Scheler on Man’s Place in Nature

Are subsurface ocean worlds Plato’s cave?

Five Are Executed at Salem for Witchcraft

Formal and Informal Institutions: An Addendum on Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville on Democracy in America

The Longue Durée of Intellectual History

Petrarch and the Development of Historical Consciousness

Bagby’s Unfinished Science of Civilization

White on Metahistory and the Role of the Historian

American Independence and the Meaning of Liberty

Tunguska: Tuesday 30 June 1908

J. R. Lucas’ Indeterminism and Temporal Realism

Whitrow’s Natural Philosophy of Time in History

An Addendum on J. Glenn Gray and Hannah Arendt on Thinking

Patočka’s Heretical Solidarity of the Shaken

J. Glenn Gray and the Lived Experience of Combat

Pieper on the Teleology of Hope and History

Kardashev on Civilizations in Cosmological Context

Reinhart Koselleck on Critique and Crisis

Childe and the Archaeological Conception of Prehistory

Heer’s Philosophical History of Europe

Husserl’s Other Philosophy of History

Joseph de Maistre on History as Experimental Politics

A. J. P. Taylor and the Nuremburg Thesis

In Search of Lost Civilizations

Fustel de Coulanges on the Linkage of Facts as Historical Truth

Abbé de Mably’s Enlightenment Pessimism

Eliade on the Terror of History

Vasconcelos and the Cosmic Race of Mexico

G. H. Mead’s Philosophy of the Present