Stories by benbreen

Make-Up and Medicine in the Middle Ages

Books on a Diet

A Village at the Edge: Awsard

Made in Taiwan?: An Eighteenth-Century Frenchman’s Fictional Formosa (2013)

Stanford University Press Awarded $1.2M for Interactive Scholarly Works

What the archives of academic job ads can tell us

The Beautiful Geometry of 18th-Century Forts

Watching the sixties and seventies through 2001 and Alien

In the 20th century, the frequency of the definite article “the” decreased

Getting Drunk in Colonial America (2013)

Anglo-Saxons did not use the four-letter profanities we credit them with

What David Foster Wallace Taught Paul Thomas Anderson

Ancestral Hierarchy and Conflict in Early Primates (2012) [pdf]

The Smart, Angry Home

How Photographers Tried to Capture the Terror of Night Zeppelin Raids During WWI

The Hunter, the Hoaxer, and the Battle Over Bigfoot

Smithsonian Digitizes 40,000 Asian and American Artworks

The Last of the Magicians: On Jack Parsons and JPL

The Medieval Origins of the Modern Footnote

A Bibliographic Miracle

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