History and Theory

06/05/2026

📣 Our June 2026 issue is out now!

This issue contains articles by Andréa Delestrade, Christopher Holman, Christian de P*e, Francesca Trivellato, and Edoardo Grendi; a review article by Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen; and review essays Stefan Berger and Udi Greenberg.

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02/24/2026

Our March 2026 issue is out now! 🎉

This issue contains articles by Antoon De Baets, Alf Lüdtke & Alexandra Oeser, João Ohara, and F. R. Ankersmit; a review article by Martin Jay; and review essays by Serge Grigoriev and David A. Hollinger.

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01/12/2026

Our December 2025 "Philology Now" theme issue, edited by Valeria López Fadul and Courtney Weiss Smith, is out!

Read it here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14682303/2025/64/4

10/24/2025

📢 Our September 2025 issue is out now!

This issue contains articles by Martin Jay and Jakub Stejskal, the "Translation, Migration, Narrative" forum (with contributions by Christoph Rass, Julie M. Weise, Laura A. Zander, Catherine S. Ramírez, Albert Manke, Fredy González, Peter Schneck, Anand A. Yang, and Kirsten Silva Gruesz), review articles by Arielle Xena Alterwaite and Jacob Collins, and review essays by Bradley J. Irish and Vera Keller.

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09/10/2025

Join us on Friday, 12 September 2025 at 12:30pm for the 2025 History and Theory Lecture, Jacques Rancière's “Dividing Time: Reflections on the Practice of an Amateur Historian,” with a response by Emily Apter (NYU).

This lecture is hosted by the Remarque Institute at NYU and History and Theory.

For more information and to register for the event, please visit the event page: https://as.nyu.edu/research-centers/remarque/events/Fall-2025/history---theory-lecture--jacques-ranciere.html

Note: Jacques Rancière will deliver his lecture virtually; Emily Apter will present her response in person.

07/09/2025

Our newest One More Thing . . . post is out now!

Read "The Eastern West Meets the Far East: Dialogues on Historical Theory—A Conversation between Ewa Domańska and Zhang Zuocheng 张作成" on our website: https://historyandtheory.org/omt/2025-ewadomanskazhangzuocheng

03/12/2025

📢Our March 2025 issue is out now!

Read it here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14682303/2025/64/1

CONTENTS:

--Articles--

- Ewa Domanska, "Revisiting Montaillou"
- Callum Barrell & Sara Raimondi, "The Stupid Nineteenth Century: Philosophy of History in Critical Posthumanist and Post-Anthropocentric Thought"
- Paul Cheney, "Inheritance and In**st: Toward a Lévi-Straussian Reading of Montesquieu’s De l'esprit des lois
- Andrew Flack & Alice Would, "Misfits, Power, and History: Rethinking Ability through an Animal Lens"

--Review Article--

- Clifford Siskin, "The Advancement of Knowledge Now, or The History of Knowledge and the Elephant in the Room"

--Review Essays--

- Fernando Esposito, review of Der Riss in der Zeit: Kosellecks ungeschriebene Historik, by Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann
- Andrew Baird, review of Singular Pasts: The “I” in Historiography, by Enzo Traverso, translated by Adam Schoene
- Premesh Lalu, review of Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling, by Erica Fretwell

12/10/2024

OUT NOW: History and Theory's December 2024 theme issue, "History and Ethics," edited by Andre de Lemos Freixo and João Ohara! 🎉

This theme issue includes contributions by Herman Paul, Jonas Ahlskog, Taynna M. Marino, Anna Clark, Q. Edward Wang, Zachary Conn, Natan Elgabsi, Antoon De Baets, and Carolyn J. Dean.

Read the issue here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14682303/2024/63/4

11/18/2024

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H&T is an international journal devoted to the theory of history and philosophy of history. Est. 1960, located at Wesleyan University, published by Wiley. Our website: https://historyandtheory.org/

09/10/2024

Our September 2024 issue is out now!

Read it here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14682303/2024/63/3