The Paper Power of Projects: Great Designs and Making America “Great” Again
Like the vintage paperweight that sits on her desk, historiographical "Great Designs" are entombed in the amber of a particular moment, writes Vera Keller.
What Makes a Project Good or Bad? Lessons from Early Eighteenth-Century Germany
Anyone who has ever written an academic project proposal will recognise the demands in this early 18th-century German work, writes Kelly J. Whitmer.
From Chance Encounters to Fresh Insights: Serendipity at Work in Historical Research
Christine Keiner on how a chance find in Panama inspired her latest research on the unrealised "Panatomic Canal".
The Devil is in the Details: Fantastic Schemes and the Quiet Champions of Urban Infrastructure
Keith Pluymers on the quiet heroes working to keep Philadelphia's streets free of floods and filth in the eighteenth century.
Echoes of Anti-Black Projects Across Time
Meagan Wierda on how the sudden closure of archives during the COVID-19 pandemic led her to a revealing nineteenth-century pamphlet.
The Strange Decline of the Global Imaginary
What has happened to the post-war global imaginary? Find out in this blog post by Björn Lundberg.
The Biggest, the Most Blank of the World’s Blank Spaces
How was Africa mapped before it was unmapped in the eighteenth century? Find out in this blog post by Petter Hellström.
Considering Uncertainty
Djoeke van Netten gives some behind-the-scenes insights into the making of this year's special issue ‘Mapping Uncertain Knowledge’ and the many academic uncertainties navigated along the way.
“Those Curious Repositories of the Sentiments and Actions of Men”
How did an eighteenth-century antiquarian go about collecting and classifying typographical antiquities? Find out in this post on Joseph Ames’ 1749 history of printing.
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The Devil is in the Details: Fantastic Schemes and the Quiet Champions of Urban Infrastructure
Keith Pluymers on the quiet heroes working to keep Philadelphia’s streets free of floods and filth in the eighteenth century.
From Chance Encounters to Fresh Insights: Serendipity at Work in Historical Research
Christine Keiner on how a chance find in Panama inspired her latest research on the unrealised "Panatomic Canal".
What Makes a Project Good or Bad? Lessons from Early Eighteenth-Century Germany
Anyone who has ever written an academic project proposal will recognise the demands in this early 18th-century German work, writes Kelly J. Whitmer.
The Paper Power of Projects: Great Designs and Making America “Great” Again
Like the vintage paperweight that sits on her desk, historiographical "Great Designs" are entombed in the amber of a particular moment, writes Vera Keller.
The Economy versus the People in Eighteenth-Century England
When did discussions of “the economy” begin, and why? William Cavert takes us to 18th-century England to explore the "improvement" literature of the time.
Echoes of Anti-Black Projects Across Time
Meagan Wierda on how the sudden closure of archives during the COVID-19 pandemic led her to a revealing nineteenth-century pamphlet.
Natural Science as Humanistic Knowledge: Negotiating Epistemic Legitimacy in Sweden, 1800–1850
Scientists, physicians, and state officials argued that the mental and moral development of students resulted from studying nature—just like their peers in philology and classical languages.
Useful to Whom? How Bureaucracy Shapes What We Know about Technology in the Early Modern Iberian State
Historians often describe Iberian administrators as diligent record keepers of “useful” knowledge, but what motivated local bureaucrats was often the desire to show that they knew how to follow the rules.
One Missing Document, and the Problem of Documenting History in the Imperial Archive
What started out as a simple paper chase soon became a project about Qing efforts to generate and track information about local administrative activities...