The American Historical Review (AHR) is the official publication of the American Historical Association (AHA). The AHA was founded in 1884 and chartered by Congress in 1889 to serve the interests of ...

History and Theory is the premier international journal in the field of theory and philosophy of history. Founded in 1960, History and Theory publishes articles, review essays, and summaries of books ...

In the realm of social networks, opinion is king. All have their vision as much on the weather as on geopolitics. This can lead to the idea that, digitally, we are replicating the agora of Ancient ...

Americans have been having a lot of trouble with historical relativism lately, and not just when it comes to the past. It’s no secret that we are too prone to apply modern standards to historical ...

Seminaries around the world are facing a major restructuring of their curriculum in a Vatican-ordered countermeasure against relativism. According to the “Decree on the Reform of Ecclesiastical ...

If relativism signifies contempt for fixed categories and [for] men who claim to be bearers of an external objective truth, then there is nothing more relativistic than fascist attitudes. —Benito ...

In certain political and religious circles, the notion of moral relativism — that there is no objective “right” or wrong, only individual opinions — is not just anathema, not merely abhorrent. It is ...

Relativism, based on the word “relation,” has much to commend it in theology as in all else. It recognizes that things have to be set in relation, whether to other things or to the observer or speaker ...