Stories by benbreen

Jane, John, Leslie? A Historical Method for Algorithmic Gender Prediction

The Vikings at home

A Forgotten Moment in ASCII Art History

Images of a New World: The Watercolors of John White (2012)

William Dampier: Pirate, Navigator, Naturalist, and Explorer

The pressure to publish pushes down quality

The Amorality of Self-Driving Cars

We Are Closing the Toast July First

Forgotten Mayan city: Is it just an old cornfield?

What Makes Texas Texas

The First Opium War: Production and Consumption (2011)

The Power of Oral History as Journalism

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)

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