Stories by benbreen

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

Jupiter Moon Europa's Giant Geysers Are Missing

History and the Technopolitics of Identity: Apartheid South Africa (2010) [pdf]

Mae Keane, the Last 'Radium Girl,' Dies at 107

Mug Shots: A Small Town Noir

That Debt from 1720? Britain’s Payment Is Coming

Sex and the Industrial Revolution

Unexpected Life Found in the Ocean's Deepest Trench

Writers who will be entering the public domain in 2015 in many countries

A Lost 1996 Interview with David Foster Wallace

A Spaniard in Samarkand, 1404 (2012)

A Columbia professor reckons with her father’s relationship with Adolf Eichmann

A Whitewashed Earthsea

No Island Is an Island in a Cosmopolitan Age

The Disappeared: the day 43 Mexican students went missing

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