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As Alexander Aerts writes for the blog, it was Russo-French philosopher Koyré who first conceptualized the end of history, using it to ask questions about what imparts meaning to human time. His student and friend, Kojève, went on to equate the end of history with the end of politics.

Alexandre Koyré and the Beginning of the End of Historyby Alexander Aertsweb.sas.upenn.edu

For Summer 2026 Reading Recommendations, we asked members of the JHI community to suggest texts related to intellectual history, broadly conceived. Responses spanned ecology and animality, the material life of texts, Asian feminisms, and the concepts of work, excess, and accountability.

What We’re Reading: Summer 2026By the JHI Communityweb.sas.upenn.edu

On the Blog, Christian Jacobs recovers a forgotten type of “Europeanization” in the early 1980s that expanded rather than stabilized European identities: the intercultural Moussem festivals organized by Moroccan workers’ organizations. @christianjacobs.bsky.social

“European and immigrant cultures”: The Moussem Festival Series in the 1980sby Christian Jacobsweb.sas.upenn.edu

For the blog, Anin Luo interviews Felix A. Jiménez Botta about his book, Latin America and Human Rights Politics in West Germany, 1973–1990. @felixjimenezbotta.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org

Latin America’s Cold War and the Battle to Redefine Human Rights in Postwar Germany: An Interview with Felix A. Jiménez Bottaby Anin Luoweb.sas.upenn.edu

In this essay for the JHI Blog, Mayaki Kimba uses his experience conducting research on Réunionnais and French Antillean activists in the early 1970s as an opportunity to reflect on how one might write a history of political thought based on the adversarial archives of the security state.

Ideas Under Lock and Key: Political Thought in Police Archivesby Mayaki Kimbaweb.sas.upenn.edu

Disha Karnad Jani interviews Tony Wood about his latest book, "Radical Sovereignty: Debating Race, Nation, and Empire in Interwar Latin America," and his examination of ideas about race, empire, and sovereignty among the Latin American Left in the interwar years. @princetonupress.bsky.social

Radical Sovereignty: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Tony Woodby Disha Karnad Janiweb.sas.upenn.edu

The April issue of the journal includes an article by Lea Cantor and Jonathan Egid: "An Ethiopian Lucretius? Giusto da Urbino and the Origins of the Ḥatäta Zärʾa Yaʿɘqob Controversy." Read it here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic... @leamundi.bsky.social

Jochen Schmon interviewed Jensen Suther about his book, True Materialism: Hegelian Marxism and the Modernist Struggle for Freedom and ongoing research. @jochenschmon.bsky.social @jensensuther.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social

Materialism and Critical Theory: An Interview with Jensen Sutherby Jochen Schmonweb.sas.upenn.edu

In an essay for the blog, Nicolás Ignacio Rojas writes that the status of semi-autonomous “vassals,” which was accorded by Spain to Chile's Indigenous Mapuche in 18th- and 19th-century treaties, challenges received dichotomies between sovereignty and subjugation. web.sas.upenn.edu/jhiblog/2026...

Negotiated Vassalage on the Chilean Frontierby Nicolás Ignacio Rojasweb.sas.upenn.edu

For the blog, Rose Facchini interviewed Roger Chartier about his book Won in Translation: Textual Mobility in Early Modern Europe (2022), which traces the travels of early-modern texts across linguistic and cultural borders, and his current research. @rosefacchini.bsky.social @pennpress.bsky.social

Elusive Movements of the Printed Word: An Interview with Roger Chartierby Rose Facchiniweb.sas.upenn.edu

The latest issue of the journal includes an article by Hannah Anderson: "The Useful Caribbean: Settlers’ Botany and Plantation Cultures," available to read here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

There are twelve days left to submit a proposal to the JHI’s fall graduate symposium. You can find the call and recommended reading here: www.jhiblog.org/2026/05/07/j...

The latest issue of the journal includes an article by Matti Leprêtre: "Paracelsus’s Doctrine of Signatures Reconsidered." Read it here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

In an essay for the blog, Chris O'Kane presents the latest edition of Marx’s Capital as yet another attempt by translators to crystallize a particular political interpretation of Marx—this time, the novel synthesis misapprehended as a straightforward “Marx revival.”

Towards a Critical Materialist Analysis of Capital’s Translationsby Chris O'Kaneweb.sas.upenn.edu

Paola Zichi's article "Race, Redemption, and Reform: The Interplay of Eugenics, Antisemitism, and Feminist Anti Trafficking Efforts in Early Twentieth-Century Italy" is the final piece in the JHI's cluster of articles on "Race: Histories of an Idea." Read it here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

In this JHI Blog interview, Leslie James discusses her latest book, “The Moving Word,” and how it reframes the relationship between newspapers and decolonization in Anglophone West Africa and the Caribbean. @harvardpress.bsky.social

Moving Words, Shifting Visions: An Interview with Leslie Jamesby Tomi Onabanjoweb.sas.upenn.edu

The new issue of the JHI includes a cluster of articles on "Race: Histories of Idea." Shruti Balaji's contribution is "'The African Problem Is a World Problem': (Dis)locating Race in Late Colonial Indian Intellectual Thought." Read it here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic... @shrutibalaji.bsky.social

For the In Theory podcast, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Samuel Rutherford about his book “Teaching Gender: The British University and the Rise of Heterosexuality, 1860–1939,” which explores how English and Scottish universities constructed gender and sexuality in early 20th-century Britain.

Teaching Gender: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Samuel Rutherfordby Disha Karnad Janiweb.sas.upenn.edu

The new issue of the JHI includes a cluster of articles: "Race: Histories of an Idea." Ian Stewart's contribution, "Pan-Celticism and Racial Thought at the Fin de Siècle" is available to read here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

On the blog, Jack Crosswaite argues that John Rawls’s influential theory of political liberalism relies on a secularized Whig history of the seventeenth-century Puritan liberty of conscience. As a result, Rawls cannot ground citizens’ commitment to his liberalism.

John Rawls’s Conscientious Historical Fableby Jack Crosswaiteweb.sas.upenn.edu