Stories by benbreen

Medieval Marginalia and Social Media

The Challenges of Beginning a Scholarly Debate in the 21st Century

Tears of the Sun: the gold rush at the top of the world

Hand crank text assembly machines

Animal Charms in the Later Middle Ages

Sight Unseen: the hows and whys of invisibility

The Color Black in Art History and Philosophy

Pankration

Technology and the New Age Movement

The Industrial Revolution and the Industrious Revolution (1994) [pdf]

The Surprising History of Poetical Misprints

The Nature of Inhabited Planets and Their Inhabitants [pdf]

Quentin Skinner on Meaning and Method

Jack Kerouac’s Secret, Obsessive Fantasy Baseball Hobby

Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Visualization

The Roger Williams Code: How scholars decrypted a secret language (2012)

Intact Ottoman 'war camel' skeleton found in Austrian cellar

Project Habakkuk

The equivalent of “It’s all Greek to me” in 30 other languages

Scraping the Smithsonian (2013)

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