Research, Resources, Perspectives
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).
Reviews the cases of Deve Hüyük, Tell Halaf, and Carchemish to underline that a better understanding of the genesis of collections makes it possible to explain the distribution of finds and to discern gaps in our knowledge about them.
Analyzes use of unicorns as a potent symbol in the Hispanic Atlantic, showing how Europeans applied knowledge of unicorns to understanding the new world.
Who do fossils belong to? The question is far from new: in various guises, it has preoccupied paleoscientists, museum curators, and occasionally officials for many years, although ongoing debates about the decolonization of science and natural history collections have renewed its significance.
Occasional notes on calls, events, publications, and more that caught our attention.
“Reconstituting the networks of the complex and mobile individuals through which indenture globally spread as a legal form of labor can sharpen our understanding of how migration practices and policies became universalized over the course of the nineteenth century…”
The History of Knowledge will be featured in several panels at the 136th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in Philadelphia from January 5-8, 2023. If you’ll be attending, please check out some...
“The role of the educator is to rhythmize the soul to [moral] virtue.”1 This conclusion to his 1841 faculty address to the Königliche Realschule zu Berlin captures the spirit of Theodor Dielitz’s educational philosophy....
Soon after the global SARS outbreaks in 2003, and many years before the current novel coronavirus pandemic led to a historically unique shutdown of global air traffic, health experts anticipated the vital role air...
Settler colonialism is a structure of political relations where a settler population seeks to replace native forms of life and relations with settler communities and, ultimately, to establish a new political community distinct from...
