That 800-Year-Old Corpse in the Well? Early Biological Warfare
Waiting Your Way to the Top: Dwight Eisenhower’s Slow Career
We Do Not Know the Population of Every Country in the World for the Past Two Thousand Years
American Stories: A Large-Scale Structured Text Dataset of Historical U.S. Newspapers
The Little-Known Shipwreck That Inspired Bram Stoker’s Dracula: Stoker Was Moved by Grim Details from the World around Him While Penning His Horror Masterpiece. The Real Fate of a Ship Called the Dmitry Played an Outsized Role in His Imaginings
Have we lost sleep? A reconsideration of segmented sleep in early modern England
Rebel, Remain, or Resign? Military Elites’ Decision-Making at the Onset of the American Civil War
Interview: Masamitsu Yoshioka, 105, on What Happened In the Skies Over Honolulu
Archaeometric Identification of a Perfume from Roman Times
Communication And The Role Of The Medieval Tower In Greece: A Re-Appraisal
Following the herds? A new distribution of hunting kites in Southwest Asia
Why are Roman-period dice asymmetrical? An experimental and quantitative approach
Forgotten books: The application of unseen species models to the survival of culture
Ian Fleming’s Soviet rival: Roman Kim and Soviet spy fiction during the early Cold War
The Origin of the State: Land Productivity or Appropriability?
Silver coins, wooden tallies and parchment rolls in Henry III’s Exchequer
In Defense of King George: The author of a new biography [The Last King of America] shines a humane light on the monarch despised by the colonists
For Centuries, England’s Go-To Apple Utensil Was a Sheep Bone: No dentures? No problem!
Why 1914 but Not Before? A Comparative Study of the July Crisis and Its Precursors
Behavioral scientists and laypeople misestimate societal effects of COVID-19
Evaluating narratives of ecocide with the stratigraphic record at Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, Illinois, USA
Arts & Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation by Anton Howes (review)
Hot under the collar: A latent measure of interstate hostility
Thrones Wreathed in Shadow: Tacitus and the Psychology of Authoritarianism
The Cost of Torture: Evidence from the Spanish Inquisition
Empirical ‘integrated disease management’ in Ferrara during the Italian plague (1629–1631)
Radical Solutions: French mathematician Évariste Galois lived a full life. When he wasn’t trying to overthrow the government, he was reinventing algebra
Teddy Roosevelt on a Moose: Fake News, or Fake Fake News? An old photo of a US president on mooseback is often used to illustrate the deep roots of media deception. The real story may not back that up.
Book Review: Hoover [review of Whyte’s Hoover: An Extraordinary Life In Extraordinary Times]
Statistical sightings of better angels: Analysing the distribution of battle-deaths in interstate conflict over time
‘The intelligence coup of the century’: For decades, the CIA read the encrypted communications of allies and adversaries
Having Had No Predecessor to Imitate, He Had No Successor Capable of Imitating Him
‘Shattered’: Inside the secret battle to save America’s undercover spies in the digital age
Statistical reliability analysis for a most dangerous occupation: Roman emperor
Restoring ancient text using deep learning (Pythia): a case study on Greek epigraphy
Dead Reckoning: The 18th century misadventures of HMS Wager and her reluctant crew
Did Breast-Feeding Play A Role In the Evolution of Pets? Like the dolphin who adopted a baby whale, humans have often breast-fed pets
Passages I Highlighted in My Copy of Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s
Signals of strength: Capability demonstrations and perceptions of military power
The Most Modern of Modern Sports: The secret runaway success of Kenneth Gandar-Dower’s racing cheetahs
Reflections on China’s Stalinist Heritage II: Just How Totalitarian is Modern China?
Early Titanic Jokes: A disaster for the theory of disaster jokes?
Reflections on China’s Stalinist Heritage I: A Tyrant’s Toolkit
Farewell to Confucianism: The modernizing effect of dismantling China’s imperial examination system
Sons and Lovers: Political Stability in China and Europe Before the Great Divergence
Ancient Egypt and the geological antiquity of man, 1847–1863
Are Liberal Governments More Cooperative? Voting Trends at the UN in Five Anglophone Democracies
The Silurian Hypothesis: Would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in the geological record?
The Second Century CE Roman Watermills of Barbegal: Unraveling the Enigma of One of the Oldest Industrial Complexes
How the Horrific 1918 Flu Spread Across America: The toll of history’s worst epidemic surpasses all the military deaths in World War I and World War II combined. And it may have begun in the United States
Russia’s House of Shadows: My apartment building was made to house the first generation of Soviet élite. Instead, it was where the revolution went to die
Humanist Lives of Classical Philosophers and the Idea of Renaissance Secularization: Virtue, Rhetoric, and the Orthodox Sources of Unbelief
Why Are There So Many 17th Century Paintings of Monkeys Getting Drunk?
As Russian Film Row Escalates, ‘Experts’ Malign Looks Of Last Tsar’s Lover
Managing Dutch Advices: Abraham Casteleyn and the English Government, 1660–1681
The fascinating and ego-killing existence of human wormholes
Reproductive trade-offs in extant hunter-gatherers suggest adaptive mechanism for the Neolithic expansion
‘Everything has a price’: Jimmy Carter and the Struggle for Balance in Federal Regulatory Policy
Awareness vs. Action: Two Modes of Protest in American History
The Institutional Causes of China’s Great Famine, 1959–1961
Proving Communal Warfare among Hunter‐gatherers: The Quasi‐rousseauan Error
What Edward Luttwak Doesn’t Know About Ancient China (Or a Short History of Han-Xiongnu Relations), pt. 2
What Edward Luttwak Doesn’t Know About Ancient China (Or a Short History of Han-Xiongnu Relations), pt. 1
Recalling Bitterness: Historiography, Memory, And Myth In Maoist China
Inside the Soviet Union’s secret pornography collection: Off limits to the public but enjoyed by Soviet-era leaders, the Lenin Library collection grew out of erotica confiscated from aristocrats after the revolution
Culture Clash in the Socialist Paradise: Soviet Patronage and African Students’ Urbanity in the Soviet Union, 1960–1965
Infant and child death in the human environment of evolutionary adaptation
Greek Combat Sports and Their Transmission to Central and East Asia
Ominous Parallels: What Antebellum America Can Teach Us About Our Modern Political Regime
Defining America’s Racial Boundaries: Blacks, Mexicans, and European Immigrants, 1890–1945
The Eternity of the World and Renaissance Historical Thought
The Emirate of Cordoba (756-929 AD) and the Introduction of the Egyptian Mongoose (Herpestes Ichneumon) in Iberia: the Remains from Muge, Portugal
The Soviet Problem with Two ‘Unknowns’: How an American Architect and a Soviet Negotiator Jump-Started the Industrialization of Russia, Part II: Saul Bron
Levitating the Pentagon: Exorcism as Politics, Politics as Exorcism
The Soviet Problem with Two ‘Unknowns’: How an American Architect and a Soviet Negotiator Jump-Started the Industrialization of Russia, Part I: Albert Kahn
Blind veteran tells tales from war and life since: An ex-serviceman blinded in battle has spoken exclusively to reporter Alexandra Barham about the horrors of war and the trials and tribulations of life that followed without sight
The World’s First Immunization Campaign: The Spanish Smallpox Vaccine Expedition, 1803–1813
Baffles and Bastions: The Universal Features of Fortifications
The History of Infant, Child and Adult Mortality in London, 1550–1850
Gibbon Was Right: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Economy
F✱✱✱ You! Mr. President: Confessions of the Father of the Neutron Bomb
The Dubious Quick Kill, part 1⁄2: Sword wounds and the circulatory system
Syphilis in renaissance Europe: rapid evolution of an introduced sexually transmitted disease?
Comment on ‘Galileo’s discovery of scaling laws’, by Mark A. Peterson [Am. J. Phys. 70 (6), 575–580 (2002)]–Galileo and the existence of hell
Landau’s Theoretical Minimum, Landau’s Seminar, ITEP in the Beginning of the 1950’s
The British Navy Rules: Monitoring and Incompatible Incentives in the Age of Fighting Sail
Changing Eating Habits on the Home Front: Lost Lessons from World War II Research
The consequences of political dictatorship for Russian science
Christopher Columbus, Gonzalo Pizarro, and the Search for Cinnamon
Parallel-Cousin (FBD) Marriage, Islamization, and Arabization
Biological Warfare in 18th-Century North America: Beyond Jeffery Amherst
The Late Old Kingdom in the Turin King-List and the Identity of Nitocris
The Radioactive Boy Scout: When a teenager attempts to build a breeder reactor
Scholarly Restraints? ABA Accreditation and Legal Education
Popular Perceptions of Elite Homosexuality in Classical Athens
The Qiang and the Question of Human Sacrifice in the Late Shang Period
Peter Bartl's Albanien. Vom Mittelalter Bis Zur Gegenwart (Book Review)
The Eye of the Needle: The Unique World of Microminiatures of Hagop Sandaldjian
The Social Misconstruction of Reality: Validity and Verification in the Scholarly Community
Comparative Jurisprudence (I): What Was It Like to Try a Rat?
Inhaling the spore: Field trip to a museum of natural (un)history
Bearing the burden: The Great Toronto Stork Derby, 1926–1938
Where Is There Consensus Among American Economic Historians? The Results of a Survey on Forty Propositions
Libraries in Hell: Cultural Activities in Soviet Prisons and Labor Camps 1930s–1950s
THE CULT OF THE DEAD IN JUDAH: INTERPRETING THE MATERIAL REMAINS
Terminal Delinquents: Once, They Stole Hubcaps And Shot Out Street-Lights. Now They’re Stealing Your Social Security Number And Shooting Out Your Credit Rating. A Layman’s Guide To Computer High Jinks
Urban Elites in Search of a Culture: The Brussels Snow Festival of 1511
A Brief History of Magnetospheric Physics Before the Spaceflight Era
Those Who Said ‘No!’: Germans Who Refused to Execute Civilians during World War II
Trapping The Prince: Machiavelli and the Politics of Deception
To be Taken with a Pinch of Salt: The Destruction of Carthage
The Bourbon Restoration: One Century of French Historiography
The Problem of Female Infanticide in the Greco-Roman World
King Frederick William II And The Decline Of The Prussian Army, 1786–1797
Pierfrancesco De' Medici, 1430–1476: A Radical Alternative to Elder Medicean Supremacy?
The Assimilation of Captives on the American Frontier in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Gears from the Greeks. The Antikythera Mechanism: A Calendar Computer from Ca. 80 B. C
Bridal Pregnancy in Earlier Rural England Further Examined
Pieces of the Action: The Personal Record of Sixty Event-Filled Years by the Distinguished Scientist Who Took an Active and Decisive Part in Shaping Them
‘Silk? Satin? Kersey? Rags?’ The Choristers' Theater under Elizabeth and James
The Lesson of Iraq: ‘Let Us Not Forget That Our Essential Policy Interests Are Identical With Those of the Arabs’
Social Change in the South Pacific: Rarotonga and Aitutaki
Review of Le Comte Ferdinand De Bertier (1782–1864) Et L'Enigme De La Congregation
Woman Dies In Plunge: Body of Ex-Research Worker Lands Under Hudson Bridge
The Late Dr. Barbara Burks; Death of the Brilliant Psychologist Regretted by Scientists
Whole Formulaic Verses in Greek and Southslavic Heroic Song
Dog A Fake Hero: Pushes Children Into the Seine to Rescue Them and Win Beefsteaks
The Cosmographiæ Introductio of Martin Waldseemüller in Facsimile
The Life of Medieval Students As Illustrated by Their Letters
The Life of the Hon. Henry Cavendish: Including Abstracts of His More Important Scientific Papers, and a Critical Inquiry Into the Claims of All the Alleged Discoverers of the Composition of Water
‘Ten Thousand Melodies Cannot Express Our Boundless Hot Love for You’: the Cult of Personality in Mao’s China
Francisco Franco, Robust Action, and the Power of Non-Commitment
June 30, 1876: Peter Kropotkin Escapes from Prison : A Tale of Derring-Do on the Occasion of His Birthday
ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
The Truth of Unusual Deaths under Military Expansion: Evidence from the Stable Isotopes of a Human Skull Ditch in the Capital City of the Early Shang Dynasty
How a Handful of Prehistoric Geniuses Launched Humanity’s Technological Revolution
Corroborating written history with ancient DNA: The case of the Well-man described in an Old Norse saga
The Mao Mango Cult of 1968 and the Rise of China's Working Class
The Battleships Game That Countered German U-Boat Attacks During WW2
Sex, Spies, and the National Anthem: The BSO Scandal You’ve Never Heard Of: One Hundred Years Ago, One of the World’s Top Conductors Was Ensnared in a Scandal Involving Patriotism and Sex. It Almost Toppled Boston’s Famed Orchestra.
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