[caption id="attachment_6782" align="alignleft" width="648"] 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]
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...
[caption id="attachment_5792" align="alignnone" width="656"] 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...