Research, Resources, Perspectives
Contrasts three interpretations of drunkenness within the academic discourse of the late 19th and early 20th centuries: drunkenness as a disease, as an addiction, and as a form of degeneration and shows how these interpretations impacted the public perception of excessive drinkers.
Occasional notes on calls, events, publications, and more that caught our attention.
Details the food knowledge gained when NASA sent astronauts to America’s SkyLab space station and experimented with different packaging.
Reflects on how to use virtues as a lens in historical research, i.e., to ask what virtues underpin scholarly and political discourses and practices.
Shows how the history of “race” science can be transformed into a history of knowledge by focusing on the “collecting” process, concentrating on the endeavors of the anatomists Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840), Samuel George Morton (1799–1851), and Paul Broca (1824–1880).
Author presents her book “Psychiatric Institutions and Society,” which probes how the serious and sometimes fatal decision was made to admit individuals to asylums during Germany’s age of extremes.
Occasional notes on calls, events, publications, and more that caught our attention.
Enumerates the sociocultural developments in early 20th-century Jewish-German history that brought the challah knife into being.
The Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies is seeking authors for a digital platform.
The author presents his book, which constitutes an analytical account of Ian Hacking’s styles of reasoning project and explores its philosophical implications.
Discusses examples of rumors in merchant correspondence in the early modern period to demonstrate that rumors are a form of uncertain knowledge that impacted merchants’ behavior.
