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The article explores the personal and ideological links between Prussian traveler and scientist Alexander von Humboldt and United States President Thomas Jefferson. It discusses how both men were able to have their ideas reach large audiences, globally and historically, based on their social status and that they used this platform to promote novel ideas for societal change, social improvement and scientific progress in the United States. The article explores how Jefferson and Humboldt participated in a transatlantic dialogue that served as the foundation of the international network they believed would be essential to facilitating the changes they advocated.

This article discusses the crisis of the social sciences in France, the U.S. and Russia. The author argues that the syndrome of paradigms, the specific reaction of scholars to the prolonged crisis of the social sciences, seems to be the cause for the recent boom in translations. She contrasts the crisis in France with that in Russia and asserts that while the crisis in the former is internal to the history of the social sciences, the issue in Russia is deeper. It is also noted that social scientists continue to search for translatable paradigms from Western Europe or the U.S.

The article reports on a conference on the history of empires, held in Aachen, Germany, from March 26-27, 2012. Topics of discussion included the changing semantics and terminology of empires and imperialism, nationalism and imperialism in Russia, and the connection of social problems and foreign policy in the United States.