WHAT IS MODERNITY?

Genealogies of Modernity is a limited series from the Genealogies of Modernity Project and Ministry of Ideas. Each episode takes up a well-worn story about what it means to be modern and how we got here, and then challenges that narrative with recent humanities scholarship. Genealogies of Modernity illuminates lesser-known pathways to the present and unearths overlooked resources from the past for flourishing in the future.

**EPISODE 1: CLIMBING THE MOUNTAINS OF MODERNITY**

**EPISODE 4: JAMESTOWN AND THE MYTH OF THE SOVEREIGN FAMILY**

**EPISODE 5: PICTURING RACE IN COLONIAL MEXICO**

**EPISODE 7: A GENEALOGY OF GUN VIOLENCE**

**EPISODE 8: THE ENEMY OF MORALITY IS NOT MODERNITY, IT’S ME**

ABOUT

Genealogies of Modernity is produced by Ryan McDermott, Maria Devlin McNair, Jack Pombriant, and Zachary Davis.

Genealogies of Modernity is a project of Beatrice Institute and Collegium Institute for Catholic Thought and Culture, with major support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. For responses to the series, teaching aids, as well as artwork and videos, visit genealogiesofmodernity.org.

Special thanks: Dan Cheely, James DeMasi, Peter Fristedt, Max Glider, Jake Grefenstette, Darrah McDermott, Michael Sawyer, Jess Sweeney, University of Pittsburgh Department of English and Humanities Center, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture