Sam Severson

@sseverson.bsky.social

Dad. Historian. Managing editor of @thejah.bsky.social.

'Ginzburg’s death...means that one of the last living links with a remarkable postwar generation of historians has gone....As the rise of 21st-century authoritarianism creates new generations of scapegoats and misfits, the approach of one of Italy’s greatest scholars speaks directly to our times.'

The Guardian view on the death of Carlo Ginzburg: a historian who taught us to think about outsiders | Editorial

Editorial: The work of one of Italy’s greatest scholars focused on ordinary lives oppressed by power and prejudice. That approach resonates today

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