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.
Adventures in Cross-Contextualizing Archives
How can different sources, archived centuries apart on disparate continents, speak productively to one another? This blogpost explores how cross-contextualization can help write new, global histories of knowledge.
Common and Not So Common Serendipities of Research
To what extent do serendipitous encounters shape our research? This author met her local collaborators by chance on the internet.
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