Issue 8

Spring 2017

Contents

Table of Contents

Chicago Journal of History

Letter from the Editor-in-Chief

Hansong Li

Letter from a Historian: History and Science, History as Science: Simplification, Modeling and Humility

Clifford Ando, University of Chicago

Fiction and History: Narratives, Contexts and Imagination

Jane Dailey, Ghenwa Hayek, Ada Palmer, Paola Iovene, University of Chicago; David Perry, Dominican University

Divine Love in the Medieval Cosmos

Jack Ford, University College London

A Hindu-Islamic Translation: Retrieving Dara Shikuh’s Confluence of the Two Oceans

Doha Tazi Hemida, Columbia University

William Gladstone: Providence and the People, 1838-1865

Jack Dickens, University of Cambridge

Soviet Jewish Emigration and Holocaust Collective Memory

Raya Koreh, Harvard University

A Long Hot Summer: The 1964 Columbia Avenue Race Riot and the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Philadelphia

Hannah Fagin, University of Pennsylvania

Prisons and Floods in the U.S.: Interrogating the Notions of Social and Spatial Control

Hannah Hauptman, Yale University

Fairways, Greens, and Green Space in the American Riviera

Nicholas Stewart, Yale University

Remembering the Reconstruction: An Interview with Kate Masur

Kate Masur, Northwestern University; Sarah Manhardt, University of Chicago