Papers

Public debate is afflicted by short-term thinking – how did history abdicate its role of inspiring the longer view?

Redistributing land was once central to global development efforts—and it should be today.

Historians today can perform computational tasks as they dig for insights—using, for example, computational models to reveal how often two words appear together in texts, launching network analyses to link individuals who appear in the same documents, or training computer vision models to recognize key features on digitized maps.

This essay explores the impact of automated proof construction on three key areas of mathematical cognition: on how we judge the role one piece of mathematics plays in another, on how we make mistakes in reasoning about mathematical objects, and on how we understand what our theorems are truly abou

Much debate over The History Manifesto has focused on its call for longue durée history and the question of whether its authors have accurately characterized recent work in our field. On my reading of their work, however, the long view is not an end in itself but, rather, a means to the end of making history speak to our contemporary situation and earning historians a larger place at the table of public discourse.