Joan Wallach Scott

Joan Scott’s "On the Judgment of History" asks us to imagine the past without the idea of progress. But what gets left out in the process?

The idea of history’s judgment was, and remains, seductive. Yet this notion cannot withstand scrutiny, as Joan Wallach Scott’s On the Judgment of History shows.

After Charlottesville, the historian Joan Wallach Scott wanted to find out how societies face up to their past—and why some fail.

"Everything, of course."

Sexless, impersonal academic approaches tell us little about the lived experiences of the LGBT community.

On the ways that people have conflated freedom with whiteness but pays too little attention to the force of freedom as a concept.

The past has habitually been repurposed in a manner inhibiting ethical accountability in the present.

Historians are losing their audience, and searching for the next trend won’t win it back.