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Departmental Publications, Department of History [27]
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Scholarly Works, Department of History [30]
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Sociotechnical agendas: Reviewing future directions for energy and climate research
(2020-12)The field of science and technology studies (STS) has introduced and developed a "sociotechnical" perspective that has been taken up by many disciplines and areas of inquiry. The aims and objectives of this study are ... -
Invisible Inequalities: Persistent Health Threats in the Urban Built Environment
(Brepols, 2020-12)A city’s materiality creates health and illness. We both write about air - its movement and its temperature - as it affects human bodies. We offer two topics as case studies, heat and ventilation, and how they exacerbate ... -
From postcard to book cover: illustrating connections between medical history and digital humanities
(2019-10)This article illustrates the value and impact of collaboration among scholars, archivists, and librarians working across universities and government institutions, and how changes in medium-from a born-physical photograph ... -
Night Matters—Why the Interdisciplinary Field of “Night Studies” Is Needed
(MDPI, 2020-01-10)The night has historically been neglected in both disciplinary and interdisciplinary research. To some extent, this is not surprising, given the diurnal bias of human researchers and the difficulty of performing work at ... -
La Grippe or Russian Influenza: Mortality Statistics During the 1890 Epidemic in Indiana
(Wiley, 2019-02-12)Background The Russian influenza, which began in late 1889, has long been recognized as a major global epidemic yet available statistical evidence for morbidity and mortality has not been fully examined using historical ... -
The American Soldier Collaborative Digital Archive
(National Endowment for the Humanities, 2018-07-31)With funding provided by an NEH Foundation HCRR grant, PW-253776, our team finished the first phase of The American Soldier Collaborative Digital Archive. The goal of this project is to create a free, public website to ... -
Viral Networks: Connecting Digital Humanities and Medical History
(VT Publishing, 2018-12-11)This volume of original essays explores the power of network thinking and analysis for humanities research. Contributing authors are all scholars whose research focuses on a medical history topic—from the Black Death in ... -
Historically Speaking, Spring 2000
(Virginia Tech, 2000-03)This newsletter chronicles the many activities in the History Department and the numerous accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni. -
Historically Speaking, Spring 1999
(Virginia Tech, 1999-03)This newsletter chronicles the many activities in the History Department and the numerous accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni. -
Historically Speaking, Summer 1999
(Virginia Tech, 1999-08)This newsletter chronicles the many activities in the History Department and the numerous accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni. -
Historically Speaking, Fall 1999
(Virginia Tech, 1999-10)This newsletter chronicles the many activities in the History Department and the numerous accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni. -
Historically Speaking, Fall 1998
(Virginia Tech, 1998-09)This newsletter chronicles the many activities in the History Department and the numerous accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni. -
Historically Speaking, Fall 2012
(Virginia Tech, 2012)This newsletter chronicles the many activities in the History Department and the numerous accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni. -
Historically Speaking, Spring 1998
(Virginia Tech, 1998-03)This newsletter chronicles the many activities in the History Department and the numerous accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni. -
Historically Speaking, Fall 2013
(Virginia Tech, 2013)This newsletter chronicles the many activities in the History Department and the numerous accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni. -
Historically Speaking, Summer 1998
(Virginia Tech, 1998-07)This newsletter chronicles the many activities in the History Department and the numerous accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni. -
Historically Speaking, Fall 2014
(Virginia Tech, 2014)This newsletter chronicles the many activities in the History Department and the numerous accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni. -
Historically Speaking, Winter 2011/2012
(Virginia Tech, 2012)This newsletter chronicles the many activities in the History Department and the numerous accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni. -
Historically Speaking, Spring 2008
(Virginia Tech, 2008)This newsletter chronicles the many activities in the History Department and the numerous accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni. -
Historically Speaking, Summer 2010
(Virginia Tech, 2010)This newsletter chronicles the many activities in the History Department and the numerous accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni.