Daragh Grant
@daraghjgrant.bsky.social
UChicago. Early American history; colonialism and empire; legal history; history of political thought. https://www.daraghjgrant.com
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Daragh Grant
@daraghjgrant.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Sir Edward Coke’s Infidel: Imperial Anxiety and the Colonial Origins of a “Strange Extrajudicial Opinion”* | The Journal of Modern History: Vol 95, No 4
Abstract In the middle of his report on the Case of the Post-nati, also known as Calvin’s Case (1608), Sir Edward Coke drew a distinction between the status of laws in conquered Christian and conquere...
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Struck by the irony that it is a moral panic over migration that threatens to spell the demise of birthright citizenship, when it was in the midst of anxieties around immigration that the principle was born. Let’s see how the originalists navigate that. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
Constantin Fasolt’s “Hegel’s Ghost: Europe, the Reformation, and the Middle Ages” (2008) is a magisterial example of a scholar at the height of his powers who knows how to say exactly what he means and understands the immense difficulty of doing so. Ungated PDF👇 www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1...
Hegel’s Ghost: Europe, the Reformation, and the Middle Ages | Viator
According to an old historical tradition, the Reformation marked a fundamental break from the Middle Ages. The tradition has a point, because the Reformation really did bring major change. But it is a...
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November 1, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Constantin Fasolt’s “Hegel’s Ghost: Europe, the Reformation, and the Middle Ages” (2008) is a magisterial example of a scholar at the height of his powers who knows how to say exactly what he means and understands the immense difficulty of doing so. Ungated PDF👇 www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1...
This is a beautiful little film. Its use of silence works brilliantly to highlight the deep well of revolutionary disappointment that McGahern depicts so carefully in his work, without ever quite succumbing to it. youtu.be/WiZn7figKHc
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN Official Trailer
YouTube video by Juno Films
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May 20, 2025 at 7:33 AM
This is a beautiful little film. Its use of silence works brilliantly to highlight the deep well of revolutionary disappointment that McGahern depicts so carefully in his work, without ever quite succumbing to it. youtu.be/WiZn7figKHc
There is a senate joint resolution (SJ 16) before the Government Administration and Elections Committee of the Connecticut General Assembly pertaining to the Treaty of Hartford (1638), and its provisions enjoining the extermination of the Pequot people. Below is my testimony. 1/3
March 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM
There is a senate joint resolution (SJ 16) before the Government Administration and Elections Committee of the Connecticut General Assembly pertaining to the Treaty of Hartford (1638), and its provisions enjoining the extermination of the Pequot people. Below is my testimony. 1/3
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What is one to conclude from the contrast between the AHA’s position on Ukraine and its position on Gaza other than it believes some people’s histories are worth more than others?
January 18, 2025 at 2:57 AM
What is one to conclude from the contrast between the AHA’s position on Ukraine and its position on Gaza other than it believes some people’s histories are worth more than others?
There is, I think, a way to conceive of Stuart Hall’s diagnosis of the Left’s ills through an idiom by which Wittgenstein took issue with much of what passed for philosophy. 1/5
January 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
There is, I think, a way to conceive of Stuart Hall’s diagnosis of the Left’s ills through an idiom by which Wittgenstein took issue with much of what passed for philosophy. 1/5
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January afternoon sunlight, Merrion Square, Dublin
January 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
January afternoon sunlight, Merrion Square, Dublin
The model student: Russell on Moore on Wittgenstein—“[Moore] says he always feels W. /must/ be right when they disagree. He says during his lectures W. always looks frightfully puzzled, but nobody else does.”
January 7, 2025 at 6:52 AM
The model student: Russell on Moore on Wittgenstein—“[Moore] says he always feels W. /must/ be right when they disagree. He says during his lectures W. always looks frightfully puzzled, but nobody else does.”
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So sad to see an established historian punch down and personally attack a contingent faculty member like Claire Potter does here. Highly unprofessional behavior. 🗃️
January 6, 2025 at 5:41 AM
So sad to see an established historian punch down and personally attack a contingent faculty member like Claire Potter does here. Highly unprofessional behavior. 🗃️
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Good editorial by the Irish Times about the need to properly fund the National Archives:
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/edit...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/edit...
The Irish Times view on the National Archives: a vital resource which has been consistently neglected
The service is chronically understaffed and underfunded and too many archive services are undermined by the restrictions under which they operate
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December 30, 2024 at 7:47 AM
Good editorial by the Irish Times about the need to properly fund the National Archives:
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/edit...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/edit...
I’m not saying it means anything or whatever, but when the baby fusses, she’s most quickly soothed by the idea that “the city comes into being for the sake of living, but exists for the sake of living well.” She is totally uninterested in whether you like that translation though.
December 29, 2024 at 3:44 PM
I’m not saying it means anything or whatever, but when the baby fusses, she’s most quickly soothed by the idea that “the city comes into being for the sake of living, but exists for the sake of living well.” She is totally uninterested in whether you like that translation though.
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I’m not remotely unbiased but this show is so, so good—incredible to see a big museum show with this kind of conceptual coherence through hundreds of pieces from across a century and much of the world
Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica | The Art Institute of Chicago
The first major exhibition to survey Pan-Africanism’s cultural manifestations gathers together some 350 objects, spanning the 1920s to the present, made by artists on four continents: Africa, Nor...
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December 28, 2024 at 8:23 PM
I’m not remotely unbiased but this show is so, so good—incredible to see a big museum show with this kind of conceptual coherence through hundreds of pieces from across a century and much of the world
David Scott’s skeptical formulation, that “X is not so much wrong, as irrelevant,” is a doubt that we could all productively tarry with before spilling our ink.
December 28, 2024 at 3:35 AM
David Scott’s skeptical formulation, that “X is not so much wrong, as irrelevant,” is a doubt that we could all productively tarry with before spilling our ink.
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Surprisingly well-timed festive arrival, courtesy of @princetonupress.bsky.social.
May Freiheit hand a festive garland to you and your loved ones this Christmas time!
(That’s such a fine looking book, @brunoleipold.com!)
May Freiheit hand a festive garland to you and your loved ones this Christmas time!
(That’s such a fine looking book, @brunoleipold.com!)
December 24, 2024 at 12:03 PM
Surprisingly well-timed festive arrival, courtesy of @princetonupress.bsky.social.
May Freiheit hand a festive garland to you and your loved ones this Christmas time!
(That’s such a fine looking book, @brunoleipold.com!)
May Freiheit hand a festive garland to you and your loved ones this Christmas time!
(That’s such a fine looking book, @brunoleipold.com!)
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Has already started to win formal accolades (and deserves them!)
The Specter of the Archive
An exploration of the proliferation of paper in early modern Britain and its far-reaching effects on politics and society. We are used to thinking of ourselves as living in a time when more informat...
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December 27, 2024 at 3:24 PM
Has already started to win formal accolades (and deserves them!)
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A Microcosm of the World: C.L.R. James, interviewed by Stuart Hall, introduction by Phoebe Braithwaite: The complete, unaired 1976 BBC interview:
#StuartHall #BlackSky #Books #NYB #CLRJames #PhoebeBraithwaite #Read #Bluesky #Writers #Academia #Academic
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#StuartHall #BlackSky #Books #NYB #CLRJames #PhoebeBraithwaite #Read #Bluesky #Writers #Academia #Academic
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A Microcosm of the World | C.L.R. James, Stuart Hall, Phoebe Braithwaite
In May 1976, the Jamaican-born cultural theorist Stuart Hall sat down in the BBC’s studios in West London to interview the Trinidadian-born intellectual
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December 21, 2024 at 6:02 PM
A Microcosm of the World: C.L.R. James, interviewed by Stuart Hall, introduction by Phoebe Braithwaite: The complete, unaired 1976 BBC interview:
#StuartHall #BlackSky #Books #NYB #CLRJames #PhoebeBraithwaite #Read #Bluesky #Writers #Academia #Academic
www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...
#StuartHall #BlackSky #Books #NYB #CLRJames #PhoebeBraithwaite #Read #Bluesky #Writers #Academia #Academic
www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...
Oh, this essay by @kabcommons looks super-interesting!
Thrilled to share my article, ''Duplex and reciprocal’ obligation: Calvin’s Case (1608) and the development of early modern English citizenship' (open access): academic.oup.com/histres/adva... It reconsiders English citizenship as a meaningful legal, rather than a participatory status.
https://academic.oup.com/histres/advanc…
December 21, 2024 at 12:19 AM
Oh, this essay by @kabcommons looks super-interesting!
First effort at Melissa Clark’s Sticky Cranberry Gingerbread. cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1017...
December 11, 2024 at 5:57 AM
First effort at Melissa Clark’s Sticky Cranberry Gingerbread. cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1017...
Post the LAST SENTENCE of your last article:
“This injustice has yet to be redeemed.”
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
“This injustice has yet to be redeemed.”
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
December 10, 2024 at 11:52 PM
Post the LAST SENTENCE of your last article:
“This injustice has yet to be redeemed.”
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
“This injustice has yet to be redeemed.”
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
Every time anything happens, pretty much anywhere, we get another iteration of the left’s same tired stories of structure or agency. So boring.
December 9, 2024 at 6:13 AM
Every time anything happens, pretty much anywhere, we get another iteration of the left’s same tired stories of structure or agency. So boring.
A little casual tariff-proofing…
December 8, 2024 at 11:02 PM
A little casual tariff-proofing…
The news from Syria is so heartening, almost unimaginably so. Let’s just hope Joe Biden doesn’t use it—cynically and stupidly—as another excuse to bastardize Seamus Heaney’s The Cure at Troy.
December 8, 2024 at 7:45 AM
The news from Syria is so heartening, almost unimaginably so. Let’s just hope Joe Biden doesn’t use it—cynically and stupidly—as another excuse to bastardize Seamus Heaney’s The Cure at Troy.
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Stuart Hall PhD scholarship at Sussex:
www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...
www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...
Stuart Hall Foundation University of Sussex PGR Studentship : University of Sussex
PhD Scholarship, Stuart Hall Foundation University of Sussex Postgraduate Research Studentship
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November 27, 2024 at 7:27 PM
Stuart Hall PhD scholarship at Sussex:
www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...
www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...
Picked up a newer find, and older aspirations, at the Seminary Coop Bookstore. Plenty to be thankful for here, including the two takes on Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Cré na Cille.
November 27, 2024 at 6:34 PM
Picked up a newer find, and older aspirations, at the Seminary Coop Bookstore. Plenty to be thankful for here, including the two takes on Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Cré na Cille.