Stories by benbreen

Scholars Talk Writing: Anthony Grafton

Death by Flaming Water Ski, and Other Misfortunes

Playing Cards of the South Sea Bubble, 1720 (2011)

Soma, Spice and Substance D: A History of Drugs in Science Fiction

The Rise and Decline of History Specializations Over the Past 40 Years

Recipes to Entertain in an Exeter Cathedral Library Manuscript

A Two-Miles-per-Hour World: the speed that news traveled to Venice, 1500 to 1765

All Change At Maggs Brothers

The contest between colonists and seafaring Indians for the American coast

Pseudo-Kufic: Renaissance Imitations of Arabic Script (2010)

The Immigration Iliad

Amazonia, 1952: On finding objects recovered from a Pan Am plane crash (2012)

Early 20th Century Technocracy Movement

The Forgotten Midwest Craze for Palaces Made Out of Grain

Clouds Over Cuba: Cuban Missile Crisis and What Might Have Been [video] (2012)

The Exotic Taste of Rice

Trail layout for D3

Judging a Book by its Cover

Annotations in very early printed books

“Dissected Maps” Were the First Jigsaw Puzzles

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