by Summer Hart | Oct 31, 2024
How modern data-driven government originated in the creation and use of administrative archives in the British Empire. Over the span of two hundred years, Great Britain established, governed, lost, and reconstructed an empire that embraced three continents and two...
by Summer Hart | Oct 31, 2024
An insightful history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain told through a single sense: touch. When, where, and who gets to touch and be touched, and who decides? What do we learn through touch? How does touch bring us closer together or push us apart? These...
by Summer Hart | Oct 31, 2024
In Experimental Histories, Hannah Weaver examines the medieval practice of interpolation—inserting material from one text into another—which is often categorized as being a problematic, inauthentic phenomenon akin to forgery and pseudepigraphy. Instead, Weaver...
by Summer Hart | Oct 31, 2024
Since her death in 2003, Nina Simone has been the subject of an astonishing number of rereleased, remastered, and remixed albums and compilations as well as biographies, films, viral memes, samples, and soundtracks. In Fantasies of Nina Simone, Jordan Alexander Stein...
