Stories by benbreen

Band-e Kaisar – “Caesar's dam”‎‎

A Renaissance Merchant's Life in Clothing (2011)

The Painted Skull (2014)

You've Got Mail Bombs: Tracking Down the Most Dangerous Letters in the World

Holocene shifts in plant and animal communities implicate human impacts

Digital History Projects That Dazzled Us in 2015

What have we lost now that we can no longer read the sky?

Worlds Without End

The tales of Darab: a medieval Persian prose romance (2014)

Solved: The Ciphers in Book III of Trithemius's Steganographia (1998) [pdf]

Reading List: The History of Drugs from Ambergris to Zedoary

Low Pay, Long Commutes: The Plight of the Adjunct Professor

The Strange Paradise of Paul Scheerbart

The Alchemy of Madness: Understanding a Seventeenth-Century “Brain Scan”

Three Centuries of Drug Advertising (2012)

Hope and the Historian

The 'braided stream' analogy for human evolution

The Domestic Life of Alchemists (2011)

The History of Modern India

What if? On the value of counterfactual history

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