From the forthcoming Routledge Companion to Philosophical Hermeneutics, ed. Jeff Malpas (2015), Giuseppina D'Oro (Keele): Philosophers of History, Not Philosophers of Time: Collingwood and Oakeshott on Historical Understanding. Herman Paul (Leiden): The Heroic Study of Records: The Contested Persona of the Archival Historian. Jorma Kalela (Turku): History Making: The Historian as Consultant. G. Edward White (Virginia): Charles Beard and Progressive Legal Historiography. Mark Auslander (Central Washington): Touching the Past: Materializing Time in Traumatic “Living History” Reenactments. From almost the opening shot, the Great War has been fought over by historians wishing to interpret and understand what happened and why — their conflict is not over yet. John B. Judis on Martin J. Sklar, the Sarah Palin enthusiast who may have been the best American historian of his generation. Rise of a right-wing quack: Heather Digby Parton on faux-historian David Barton’s shocking new influence. Christopher Phelps on the meaning of Ronald Reagan: The lawsuit against Rick Perlstein is a distraction from a much-needed debate over Reagan’s rise (and Christopher Caldwell reviews Perlstein’s The Invisible Bridge). The people’s scholar: Dennis Dworkin on Eric Hobsbawm in fractured time. From a recent conference on History After Hobsbawm, here is a series of reports and reviews. Robert R. Weyeneth (South Carolina): What I’ve Learned Along the Way: A Public Historian’s Intellectual Odyssey. Does it help to know history? Adam Gopnik wonders. Snapshots of history: Rebecca Onion on how wildly popular accounts like @HistoryInPics are bad for history, bad for Twitter, and bad for you. The American Historical Association writes a “letter of concern” to University of Illinois Chancellor regarding Salaita case.
