Whiteness Studies I by Peter Kolchin

“…These two articles evaluate the way historians have approached the subject. The first article, originally published in the Journal of American History in 2002, examines the development of whiteness studies in the 1990s, and the second, which appears here for the first time, provides an update on more recent trends. …”
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Whiteness Studies II by Peter Kolchin

“…These two articles evaluate the way historians have approached the subject. The first article, originally published in the Journal of American History in 2002, examines the development of whiteness studies in the 1990s, and the second, which appears here for the first time, provides an update on more recent trends. …”
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Book history's recent methodological trend: national and intemational outlines by Jyrki Hakapää

“…They all belong to historians' working tools. …”
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The Republics of the Southern Caucasus on their way to the ‘Socialist federation’ (1917–1922) by L. S. Gatagova

“…The author highlights both similarities and differences in the views of Soviet and modern historians on the related issues, including the realization of the right to self-determination of the peoples of the South Caucasus in the first years after the October Revolution and the complex impact of international political situation on the regional developments. …”
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The Duels of Monarchs: the Issue of Ritual Communication from Antiquity to the Present Day by Piotr Tafiłowski

“…It appears, however, that historians have not so far devoted proper attention to them and failed to correctly interpret this problem and explain it adequately. …”
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JUSTICE AND THEOLOGY OF KANT'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY by Nerija Putinaitė

“…In the realm of philosophy of Kant the problem of justice is distinguished by the lack of interest from the side of historians of philosophy and philosophers. The paper is an example of an attempt to deal with the problem of justice in the context of Kant's practical theory. …”
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The Reception of Neptune’s Discovery in British and American Protestant Theology by Zenon Roskal, Jacek Rodzeń

“…Indeed, the significance of this event is still a subject of interest among historians and philosophers of science. During the period discussed, natural theology played a special cognitive and social role, forming the basis for arguments based on the new knowledge of nature. …”
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De la restauration à l’exposition : à la recherche de sens et de cohérence by Christine Benoit, Paméla Grimaud, Claude Badet, Elisabeth Mognetti, Roland May

“…During the alloted time for restoration, studies and interventions of numerous actors –conservators, curators, art historians, photographers and conservation scientists – have been focusing on the achievement of the restoration. …”
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Report letter from Irkutsk official S. A. Shimansky with recommendation to deport Jews from Russia to the Supreme Ruler Admiral A. V. Kolchak (December 1918) by A. V. Sushko, M. M. Stelmak

“…The introductory preface to the document, based both on the works of historians on the situation of Jews in Russia and on clerical sources characterizing the personality of the author of the memo, analyzes the conditions that made it possible for an official in White Siberia to create it. …”
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Lithuanian, Russian, Polish istoriography with respect to the Poland - Lithuania union by Mečislovas Jučas

“…Jablonowski). German historians agreed that the union created a two-state Poland-Lithuania state—Doppelreich (J. …”
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PHILOLOGY AS A SCIENTIFIC AND EDUCATIONAL PROJECT by Pavel P. Shkarenkov

“…The institutionalization of comparative studies as a complex specialization - not only for philologists but also for historians, translators, theatre and cinema critics and experts - has already proven its heuristic value and educational effectiveness over the years.…”
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Rechtsgeschichte und Ordnungsdenken. Zum rechtshistorischen Werk von Paolo Grossi by Thomas Duve

“… Paolo Grossi (1933–2022) was one of the most influential legal historians of his generation. His works on the legal history of the Middle Ages and the modern period, not least his critique of the law of the modern age, have been widely received in Europe and Latin America. …”
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Josip Broz in Omsk. To the history of Russian Revolution, Russian Civil War and Socialist Construction by S. V. Novikov

“…However, it is in the Omsk period of life of the permanent leader of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia that it is advisable to seek answers to questions from historians and journalists related to the intricacies of his personal life and the choice of political course. …”
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Hadot Among the Medievalists: Revisiting the Historiography on “Intellectual Felicity” in the Thirteenth Century by Matteo Johannes Stettler

“…The reception of Hadot’s work on the tradition of spiritual exercises among historians of medieval philosophy has rarely produced the results one might reasonably have expected. …”
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Une copie de L’Origine du monde par René Magritte ? by Catherine Defeyt, David Strivay

“…For more than 20 years, the copy of The origin of the world of Courbet, which Joseph-Marie Lo Duca attributed to René Magritte, has duped historians and amateurs. Although the deception was unmasked, the date of realization, the context of realization and the author of this copy remained unknown. …”
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The Greek Ethnography. A critical overview by Aris Tsantiropoulos

“…The main argument of this article is that the introduction of postmodernism in Greek Anthropology prevented a dialogue with the pre-existing field research work that had been conducted in Greece by non Greek Ethnographers and Greek Folklorists or Historians. This fact has specific consequences at the epistemological, theoretical and methodological level of contemporary Greek Ethnography. …”
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Kazakh khans of the 15th–17th centuries in the scientific heritage of Shigabutdin Marjani by Atygayev N.A.

“…It is established that the main sources for his work were the studies of such historians of the previous period as A.I. Levshin, V.V. …”
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La connaissance des maîtres allemands anciens en France, de Dominique-Vivant Denon à Henri Focillon by Isabelle Dubois-Brinkmann, François-René Martin

“…Knowledge of the old German masters, the so-called "Primitives", from the end of the 18th century to the middle of the 20th century, is the result of an immense collective effort, to which art historians, museum curators, critics and writers have all contributed. …”
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«Let’s remember everyone by name»: reflecting on the martyrology of the victims of Civil War in Omsk region by V. V. Kalinovsky

“…The paper provides an analytical review of the scientific reference publication «Victims of the Civil War: a reference book-martyrology on the act records of the parish registers of the temples of the Omsk region (June 1918–December 1919)», prepared by the creative team of Omsk historians-archivists — candidates of historical sciences Dmitry Igorevich Petin and Maxim Maksimovich Stelmak. …”
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Les luttes sociales dans les campagnes andalouses : usages et significations du mot campesino de 1931 à 1936 by Arnaud Dolidier

“…However, most of these historians have been misusing the term « peasant », defining it in an ahistorical manner, therefore assimilating the social to the natural, especially the actors of rural Andalusia. …”
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