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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La Nouvelle-Orléans au XIXe siècle : femmes de couleur libres, femmes de pouvoir ? by Nathalie Dessens

“…This article dwells on the emergence of a few feminine figures in the studies conducted by historians of Louisiana since the 1980s and examines the relative invisibility of women in the early historiography of New Orleans’s antebellum period (1800-1860). …”
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Historia y memoria del trabajo forzado del sistema concentracionario franquista by Juan Carlos García-Funes, Fernando Mendiola Gonzalo

“…Regardless the recent efforts carried out by historians and memorial associations, this lack of knowledge reaches the victims’ families and a great part of Spanish society. …”
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“We can and we must”: The scientificity of trade-union history-writing in the Soviet Union in the 1920s by Roman Gilmintinov

“… In the 1920s, the young Soviet Republic, rejecting the old social system, turned to the study of the past. Instead of engaging with professional historians, the new regime initiated a whole range of large-scale participatory projects incorporated into political and public institutions to produce new, revolutionary history. …”
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Représenter volailles et volaillères dans la peinture italienne du Cinquecento by Valérie Boudier

“…Artistic image has a language of its own the Art historians attempt to decipher by analyzing the objectives, conventions, styles, and techniques of each work. …”
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The Firebombing of Tokyo: Views from the Ground by Cary Karacas, Bret Fisk

“…In stark contrast to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, however, historians and other scholars working in the English language have paid little attention to the tremendous societal impact - both immediate and long-lasting - of the destruction by firebombing of Japan's cities. …”
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Born Dead or Alive? Revisiting the Definition of Stillbirths in Norway by Hilde Leikny Sommerseth

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From Law Book to Legal Book: The Origin of a Species by Michael Widener

“…The field of legal history has begun to take greater interest in legal books as social and cultural phenomena, as objects of commerce and as artifacts. …”
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Time after Time: Narratives of the Longue Durée in the Anthropocene by Stephen W. Sawyer

“…This article suggests that new potential areas of collaboration between historians and literary scholars have emerged around a nascent but galloping interest in two fields of scholarship, the Anthropocene and the longue durée. …”
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Relocalisation de sources anciennes, textuelles et matérielles du XXe siècle : les « aires culturelles » de la vigne en Bourgogne en question by Guillaume Grillon, Jean-Pierre Garcia

“…The archives are from the XXth century but they are similar to the ancient sources that the historians of the Middle Age or of the modern era deal with, taking in account that the data are not complete and that the wine growers witnesses of the practical experiences or users of those tools have died. …”
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Ackee and saltfish vs. amalá con quimbombó? A note on Sidney Mintz’ contribution to the historical anthropology of African American cultures by Stephan Palmié

“…In the spirit of Sidney Mintz’ contribution to African American historical anthropology, this essay examines theories allocating differential explanatory weight to African cultural continuities and New World social conditions in the historical development of African American cultures through the lens of a set of culinary allegories built around two Caribbean dishes. …”
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The South African Families Database by Jeanne Cilliers

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L’histoire et « l’avenir possible » : Laroui, Djaït et la modernité du Maghreb dans les années 1970 by Idriss Jebari

“…In 1974, Abdallah Laroui and Hichem Djaït, two emerging Maghrebi historians and intellectuals wrote political essays affirming the necessity of re-historicizing the national projects of Tunisia and Morocco. …”
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Lithuanian, Russian, Polish istoriography with respect to the Poland - Lithuania union by Mečislovas Jučas

“…During Soviet times, Lithuanian historiography, influenced by Russian historians' works, evaluated the Lublin union negatively, describing it as the burial of the Lithuanian state, the intensification of noble privileges, and an obstacle to social progress (J. …”
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Places and Cultures of Capitalism: Histories from the Grassroots by Elsa Devienne, Andrew Diamond

“…Following the publication in 2013 of a front-page New York Times article covering this new subfield, historians identifying with the project contributed to a range of field-defining essays and exchanges explaining its origins and inspirations, its innovations, and its importance. …”
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Regional Dimension of history of Organs of GPU-OGPU: to the analysis of monograph by A. B. Gularyan and A. Yu. Sarana by A. V. Sushko

“…It is emphasized that it contributes to the study of the political, social and everyday history of the early Soviet society. …”
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The German and Austrian Historiography on Russia's Participation in the Holy League War by V. I. Kuznetsov

“…German and Austrian historiography of the Holy League war is an essential source because German and Austrian historians have analyzed Russia's participation in this war since the 18th century. …”
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Contribution à l’anthropologie de la consommation de champignons à partir du cas du sud-ouest de la France (xvie-xxie siècles) by Frédéric Duhart

“…Evoking the mushroom consumption by the South-West France populations leads first to think about the classification of living things, the social building of edibility and the dynamics of these processes. …”
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«Popovsky mutiny»: on the issue of anti-Bolshevik riots in Omsk in February 1918 by A. V. Sushko

“…The church point of view is presented in the reports of the newspapers Tomsk church-social bulletin and Tobolsk eparchial vedomosti. The view of the authorities is reflected in the memoirs of a prominent Soviet figure F. …”
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The Republics of the Southern Caucasus on their way to the ‘Socialist federation’ (1917–1922) by L. S. Gatagova

“…As we approach the 100th anniversary of the formation of the USSR, political, military, social, ethnic and other determinants of consolidation of the peoples and territories of the former Russian Empire within the Bolshevik state attract an increasing interest of academic community. …”
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