Biophoty: The Biofilm in Biography Theory by Joanny Moulin

“…It begins by looking back to a debate going on in the 1970s and 1980s about whether film was a suitable medium for historiography and historical research, contrasting the reluctance of some American and British researchers like Robert Rosenstone, Ian Jarvie and Belén Vidal with French historian Marc Ferro’s engagement in favour of the use of cinema in history studies, and his contention that “history on film has become a force”. …”
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G. P. FEDOTOV ON THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE RUSSIAN GOVERNING ELITE by E. M. Amelina

“…The article analyses the transformation of the Russian management elite from the point of view of the famous Russian historian, sociologist and philosopher G. P. Fedotov (1886–1951). …”
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How far it is gone in the Soviet historiography from H. Lowmianski's study about the genesis of Lithuanian state by Edvardas Gudavičius

“…Only in 1959 did a study by the Russian historian V. Pashuto appear in Moscow, which provided limited possibilities for Lithuanian historians to work in this direction. …”
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The Relationship Between Critique of History and Metahistory:A Proposal by Abolhasan Fayaz Anush

“…It means that there are incongruous interests between them, and maybe the interpretation itself, causes an inconsistent relation between historians and theorists. The present paper explains that every historian needs to have a theoretical base for writing and studying history. …”
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Book Review: Decolonizing the Mind (by Sandew Hira) by Patrick Delices

“…This non-Westernised narrative is deeply discussed in Decolonizing the Mind : A Guide to Decolonial Theory and Practice by decolonial scholar, economist, historian and activist Sandew Hira. The aim of Hira’s Decolonizing the Mind is to deeply engage decolonial theory and practice as an alternative to the prominent thinking of the West as illuminated in liberalism and Marxism. …”
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Julian the Apostate, Claudius Mamertinus, and Ammianus Marcellinus: Filling in a “Blank Spot”? by Gregor Pobežin

“…While facing immediate tactical concerns during his campaign, Julian reportedly engaged in imperial administrative duties within Illyricum, as documented by historian Ammianus Marcellinus and panegyrist Claudius Mamertinus. …”
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Evolution and Technological Process (A Review of Methodological Approaches and the Creative Evolution in Historiographic Thought of Vere Gordon Childe) by Rohullah Bahrami

“…Vere Gordon Childe, an Australian archaeologist and historian, was one of most spectacular figures in archaeology and history in the first half of the 20th century. …”
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Le Musée européen des copies de Charles Blanc comme « pendant » du Louvre by Elisa Rodríguez Castresana

“…The project, mainly imagined by the French art historian and director of the École des beaux-arts Charles Blanc, was opened in April 1873 and remained open barely nine months. …”
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Kosta Nikolić’s Book Krajina (1991–1995). An Extended Review by Savković Mirko

“…The book was written by a Belgrade-based historian and published by two Croatian publishers, one of which is the national coordinating body of the Serbs in Croatia and the other the country’s leading progressive publisher. …”
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Postscript on the «Siberian Century»: response to Alexey Sushko by P. A. Eltsov

“…The article contains a reply to the critical comments by Alexey Sushko on the translation of the separate chapter from the book «Long Telegram 2: Neo-Kennanite Approach to Russia» by the American anthropologist, historian and political scientist Peter Eltsov. Replying to the comments of Alexey Sushko, the author additionally explains some key ideas of his book…”
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Johannes Hoornbeeck, a monumental 17th Century Dutch theologian: continuities in his thinking on doctrine and life by J. W. Hofmeyr

“…In a later article, the focus will move to his contributions as a systematic theologian, as an historian, as a missiologist, and as a socially engaged theologian with an irenical and ecumenical orientation, in spite of him being a strong polemicist. …”
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Writing, rewriting and revisiting the Cold War in Tom Stoppard’s Squaring the Circle. Poland 1980-81 (1984) by Jean Du Verger

“…While history is an account of events the playwright, like the historian, is nevertheless left speculating on the gaps and cracks that separate the actual experience from the recollection of the events under consideration. …”
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1874-1875: The Birth of a Fashion Heritage Consciousness in France by Maude Bass-Krueger

“…One year later, the historian and archaeologist Jules Quicherat (1814-1882) published the first popular book about French dress history, l'Histoire du costume en France depuis les temps reculés jusqu'à nos jours (Hachette, 1875). …”
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Un établissement pénitentiaire singulier dans «l’archipel punitif» de l’armée française en Algérie : L’établissement des fers de Douera puis de Bône (1855-1858) by Nadia Biskri

“…Although these centers of detention did not last more than three years, this place of punishment for deviants to the military order has proven for the historian to be a real observatory of a penitentiary experiment in a colonial situation. …”
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Die Filistynse plaag in 1 Samuel 5-6: medies-teologiese verlarings

“…We thus consider that the 1st century AD Jewish-Roman historian, Josephus, was correct when he stated that the Philistine epidemic was dysentery: bacillary dysentery is a disease caused by a micro-organism which spreads from person to person by way of oral-faecal infection in a situation where there is poor hygiene, as was probably the case in 11th century BC Philistia. …”
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L’ombre du Condor by Franck Gaudichaud

“…If one looks today, with the historian's eyes, the South Cone at the end of the sixties and seventies and then, by continuation, turns a page of some years to fix the same part of the world, the report is very clear: the Latino-American subcontinent passed, in general, from a phase of important social mobilization and politicisation, rise of revolutionary parties and organizations, elections of left or progressive populists governments developing a dynamic of rupture with imperialism, to a generalized backward movement of the working class organizations, an era of state-controlled political violence, the massive reduction of liberty of expression, the physical and ideological destruction of the militants and revolutionary movements, the setting up of neoliberal capitalistic economic models. …”
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Ondina Valla, une « championne du fascisme » aux Jeux olympiques de Berlin (1936) by Suzy Toson

“…Above all, by rethinking the 1936 Olympics through Ondina Valla’s own experience, in particular by studying photographs and testimonies from the athlete collected afterwards, this portrait allows us to examine central issues in the study of the relationship between society and totalitarian regimes: the impact of fascist ideology on Ondina Valla’s development and identity, and the way in which she was able to appropriate, in the words of historian Alf Lüdtke, the world shaped by fascist dictatorship.…”
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Finding provenance, seeking context by Peter Mark

“…If, therefore, one assumes that some of the works were produced in the northern range of ‘Sape’ occupation, present-day Guinea-Bissau, it then becomes advisable for the art historian to compare these ivories with the rich corpus of wood sculpture made by the groups whose ancestors belonged to or lived adjacent to the northern ‘Sapes’. …”
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L’empire de l’imaginaire : la fin du monde et son rapport à l’histoire dans l’œuvre de Lucian Boia by Aurélien Portelli

“…The imaginary of the end of the world is one of the main keys to understanding the work of Lucian Boia. For this historian, the narratives of the end of the world refer, beyond their obvious differences, to the same archetypal structures, which he essentially associates with the imaginaries of divination and escape. …”
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Lytton Strachey : l’historien intime de deux reines by Jeannine Hayat

“…The two books made him a very famous historian. However, he would personally have preferred to be admired for his poetry or his plays, for he was a very gifted literary author. …”
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