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.
Why Write the History of Ignorance?
No one would like to be called a "Professor of Ignorance," yet we know that ignorance has a history. This suggests that historians should find a way to write it.
Extraction with Restraint: Data Practices in Eighteenth-Century Mining
Holding back for future gain: How archives and bureaucracy aided “sustainable” investment strategies in Amsterdam and Saxony.
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