Images du pouvoir royal dans les Travaux et les Jours d’Hésiode : une approche de Zeus dans le « mythe des races » by Karin Mackowiak

“…This study focuses on hesiodic poetic construction in concordance with the social and political background of VIIth century B.C. …”
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Fille d’Octobre. Générations, engagement et histoire by Malika Rahal

“…Herself one of the «children of October» (October 1988 and the heavily repressed Algerian youth riots), the author reflects upon the possibility of being both Algerian and French on one side and the other of the Mediterranean in the context of emigration, and on the necessity for all historians working on Algeria to be self-critical about their generational, national (or transnational) and social engagements.* Ego-histories are commissioned biographical essays in which the author is invited to explore his or her vocational choices. …”
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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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Langage égalitaire : vers une rationalisation des procédés et des approches by Éliane Viennot

“…Inclusive writing, a major subject of controversy in recent years, “mortal peril” for some people, is a matter of historical and social issues spanning centuries. Based on a history of language and women, historian Éliane Viennot studied the process of masculinization of the French language with the institution of the French Academy in the 19th century. …”
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Old History of Culture and New Cultural History by Zenonas Norkus

“…This idea of culture invites a historian to consider culture not as a specific set of social phenomena that are concentrated in the particular "cultural institutions" or segment of society, but as an aspect which can be detected in any social phenomena. …”
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COUNTERFACTUALS IN HISTORIOGRAPHY by Zenonas Norkus

“…The irrelevance of Jon Elster's "basic paradox of counterfactuals" for the working historian is asserted on the ground that as a matter of fact there is no empirical social theory capable to endogenize all initial conditions in explanatory arguments where it is instrumental for deduction of explanandum. …”
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Józef Białynia-Chołodecki (1852–1934) – badacz i popularyzator historii powstania styczniowego by Damian Kozłowski

“… Józef Białynia-Chołodecki was a publicist, social worker, historian and one of the most active non-professional researchers of the post-partition history of Poland at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and the interwar period. …”
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PYOTR BITSILLI IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL “CONVERSATION” OF RUSSIA ABROAD by D. V. RATUSHINA

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Newspaper cartoons as a reflection of political change during the first democratic elections in South Africa by Cornelius van Heerden

“…The only local comic strips that provide (198 social and political commentary are "Ben, Babsie en Famille" and "Louis die Laeveld Leeu". …”
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Moral Economy by Asonzeh Ukah

“… Since the re-purposing of the concept of the moral economy by the British historian, E.P. Thompson in the late 1960s, scholars from a variety of disciplines in social sciences and humanities have attempted to apply it as a tool for empirical analysis. …”
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«On seven dashing blowing winds...» (About book by D. I. Petin «The History of the Omsk clan of Batyushkin») by A. A. Shtyrbul

“…The paper analyzes the monograph «The History of the Omsk clan of Batyushkin» prepared by the Omsk historian-archivist and public figure, candidate of historical sciences, associate professor D. …”
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Mémoires et patrimonialisation d’un passé antéislamique : Mubârak al-Mîlî et l’ethnogenèse du peuple algérien by Aomar Hannouz

“…Yet the writings of another historian close to the Association of Algerian Ulemas, Mubârak al-Milî (d. 1945) were no less important. …”
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The Epoch and Personality of Peter the Great in Nikolay Charykov’s Research by O. A. Chernov

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Veniamin Mikhailovich Samosudov — man and scientist at crossroads of times (1926–2010) by S. V. Novikov

“…This transition required the training of teachers of history and social Sciences, which was entrusted to pedagogical institutes. …”
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The Epistemological Status of Charisma in Historical Macrosociology by D. V. Kataev, V. O. Kalinina

“…The key question is addressed to the interdisciplinary connections in Weber's intellectual heritage — is the category "charisma” attributable to Weber the historian or Weber the sociologist?The clarification of the epistemological status of charisma, expressed in its dual character (phenomenon vs. ideal type), becomes possible thanks to the discussion of a corpus of the classic texts by two prominent German Weberologists — W. …”
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Immanuel Wallerstein's Theory of the Capitalist World-System by Darius Žiemelis

“… One of the most significant tendencies in the development of Western historiography and social sciences in the last three decades has been the consolidation of a new multidisciplinary field of inquiry, comparative historical sociology (CHS). …”
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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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The development of the research on the history of libraries: a handful of reflections from the French perspective by Jean-Dominique Mellot

“…A change in this situation came as late as the first decade of the 21st century and was greatly influenced by the works of the recently deceased historian Frédéric Barbier (1952–2023). Since that time, we have been witnessing a significant widening of perspectives, very much in line with the wish expressed by F. …”
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Possibilities to adapt oral history to the research of Soviet and post-Soviet epoch (the problems of the culture of memory and the politics of history) by Aurimas Švedas

“…A closer collaboration of historians and social scientists as well as significant financial investments aimed to support specific research projects and corrections in the evaluation of the production of humanitarian scientists are also very important aspects. …”
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The Fake History: Soviet Totalitarianism and the Memory of the Guerrilla War by Bernardas Gailius

“…The term "historical culture" was formulated by the German historian Jėim Riisen. It defines the role of history in organizing the worldview of society and forming its identity. …”
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