Browsing Scholarly Works, Department of History by Title
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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 ... -
The Currency of Kinship: Trading Families and Trading on Family in Colonial French India
(Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2014)In the French colony of Pondichéry, French and local actors alike drew on the shared idiom of kinship to strategically advance their political and commercial agendas. Recent scholarship has shown that the structures of ... -
Understanding the Role of Medical Experts during a Public Health Crisis: Digital Tools and Library Resources for Research on the 1918 Spanish Influenza
(IEEE, 2014-10)Humanities scholars, particularly historians of health and disease, can benefit from digitized library collections and tools such as topic modeling. Using a case study from the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic, this paper explores ... -
Values for Varmints: Predator Control and Environmental Ideas, 1920-1939
(University of California Press, 1984) -
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 ... -
What the Dogs Did: Animal Agency in the Soviet Manned Spaceflight Program
(British Society For The History Of Science, 2017-09-07)This paper examines the agency of the dogs used to develop the Soviet manned space flight programme by considering what the dogs did as experimental subjects, as dog technologies, and as individual dogs in the context of ... -
Wildlife, Science, and the National Parks, 1920-1940
(University of California Press, 1990-05) -
Wind Turbines and Invisible Technology Unarticulated Reasons for Local Opposition to Wind Energy
(Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2013)Local opposition to wind turbines stems from concerns about environmental and economic damage, as well as conflicts between rural and urban residents. This essay goes beyond these considerations to explore the often-unarticulated ...
