Time for Spooky Tales
Seasonal library poster by Albert M. Bender, Illinois WPA Art Project Chicago, ca. 1940, via the Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/98509532/.[/caption]
Research, Resources, Perspectives
Seasonal library poster by Albert M. Bender, Illinois WPA Art Project Chicago, ca. 1940, via the Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/98509532/.[/caption]
The Nexus of Migration, Youth, and Knowledge
This post is part confession and part revelation. When Simone Lässig approached me about collaborating on migration and the history of knowledge, I immediately agreed.1 I began writing about German scientists and the production...
By definition, experts play a vital role in creating, sustaining, and disseminating any particular body of knowledge. But what constitutes an expert? How is authority obtained? Does this change over time? There are no...
American Cancer Society poster, ca. 1951, by Walter H. Aliner, digitized at Library of Congress, PPOC, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2014646816[/caption]
In the first week of October 1932, an International Conference on Migration Statistics was held in Geneva. Over the course of five days, some thirty statisticians from twenty-six countries discussed how to produce more...