Stories by benbreen

The Hidden Messages of Colonial Handwriting

Free the Public Universities

Six Degrees of Separation

How Europe Exported the Black Death

List of prices of medieval items (2009)

LJS 423, a Spanish manuscript on ciphers from about 1600

Weeding the Worst Library Books

Carl Sagan’s Childhood Sketches of the Future of Space Travel (2014)

Survival of the Relocated Population of the U.S. After a Nuclear Attack (1976) [pdf]

When Cervantes was captured by pirates

The Peculiar History of Life Insurance

A Conversation with Koko the Gorilla (2015)

The Amazing Career of a Pioneer Capitalist

Is chess the drosophila of AI? A social history of an algorithm (2011) [pdf]

Type Slowly: Word Processing and Literary Composition

A Professor’s Memoir of Life Inside a Ravaged Body

Minds, Brains, and Programs (1980)

An Antebellum Physician’s Kit

Through the Conservation Keyhole: Piecing Abel Back Together

The Iceberg

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