Issue 7

Fall 2016

Contents

Table of Contents

Chicago Journal of History

Letter from the Editor-in-Chief

Hansong Li

Letter from a Historian: History and Truth in the Age of Trump

Jonathan Levy, University of Chicago

Bio-History in the Anthropocene: Interdisciplinary Study on the Past and Present of Human Life

Kyle Harper, University of Oklahoma; Lynn K. Nyhart, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Joanna Radin, Yale University; Julia Thomas, University of Notre Dame; Russell Tuttle, University of Chicago; Jonathan Lyon (moderator), University of Chicago

Humanity and the Great Seas: Conversation with David Abulafia

David Abulafia, University of Cambridge; Hansong Li, University of Chicago

‘Seiknes Incurabill’: The Evolution of Literary Representations of Leprosy in Medieval and Early Modern English Narratives

Alexandra Houston, Princeton University

From Guslars to Garasanin: Comparing the Influence of Oral Folk Literature on Croatian and Serbian National Movements from 1830 to 1865

Anna M. Walker, Princeton University

Savage Sagebrush and Christian Orchards: Reassessing Wilderness and Civilization on the Harriman Alaska Expedition

Anna Davis, Johns Hopkins University

Lift the Red, Stay in the Black: The Public and Private Economies of Race Ideas at the Carlisle Indian School, 1879-1904

Isaac Stein, University of Chicago

Drinking the Sea Water: Franklin Roosevelt, Polish-Americans, Yalta, and the Downfall of a Civic Elite

Matthew Schweitzer, University of Chicago

Legitimizing National Identity through ‘Transnational Existences’: Post-war Kosovo and its Relationship with the European Union, 1998-2008

Mirela Kadric, University of Sydney

Ideas in Context: Conversation with Quentin Skinner

Quentin Skinner, Queen Mary University of London; Hansong Li, University of Chicago