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October 3, 2022
Header Image: L'Enfant, Pierre Charles, Artist. Panoramic view of West Point, New York showing American encampments on the Hudson River. United States West Point New...
September 25, 2022
Nicole Breault received her Ph.D. in early American history from the University of Connecticut in 2022. She is currently the 2022-2024 Emerging Scholars Postdoctoral Fellow...
September 19, 2022
The Center for Digital Scholarship is currently preparing a project on women in science. This project will create a digital interface for exploring networks of...
September 12, 2022
Header image: Anna Clemencia Guerrero, a PhD candidate in history and philosophy of science at Arizona State University and inaugural Jacques Barzun Fellow, examines botanical...
September 6, 2022
Revolutionary City: A Portal to the Nation’s Founding is live and being updated regularly. Accessible at https://therevolutionarycity.org/, the portal has undergone many iterations and updates...
August 29, 2022
In my first post about Petrus Ramus’s 1636 Via Regia ad Geometriam—a geometry textbook with warped, broken wooden boards and mold-eaten leaves—I described the innovative...
August 22, 2022
George Washington Corner (1889–1981) was an American physician, anatomist, endocrinologist, embryologist, historian, and author. He is best known for his contributions to reproductive science, especially...
August 15, 2022
Header image: “Appearance of a Steeped Vat,” T reatise on the Process and Manufacture of Fine Indigo, 1832. British Library. Most research projects seem to...