Stories by benbreen

Why we should all learn from the ancient Greeks

U of Michigan digitizes over 2,000 political posters

The orangutan trap

Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts (1962-1965)

The Early Modern World of Game of Thrones (2014)

On Edward Hopper

Academic publishers reap huge profits as libraries go broke

The General Crisis of the 17th Century

Doing Early Modern Drugs (2011)

Writers Choose Their Favorite Words

Writers Choose Their Favorite Words

The world of 19th century patent medicine

A Literary Tour de France

Robert Darnton defended the digital, while still savoring the printed

How humanists are using computers to understand text

The Concept of Scientific History, by Isaiah Berlin (1960) [pdf]

When did men stop wearing high heels?

The Nightwalker and the Nocturnal Picaresque: Street Lighting in 1600s London

OPenn: high-res images of manuscripts from Penn's Libraries

Dear Librarian: New York Public Library's Quirkiest Inquiries

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