Reflecting on how we came to name ourselves "AmericanScience" as HSS approaches, I noticed an interesting thing under our "Ab...
AmericanScience Goes to Cleveland
AmericanScience will be all over the place at the jointly-held annual meetings of HSS/SHOT/4S in Cleveland next week. We're looking for...
Race and Violence in Occupied Oakland
Oakland Police Arresting a Protestor, from the NY Times website. According to the NY Times and the Oakland Tribune , about 1,000 ...
The Buzz on Google NGram Viewer
'Tis the season for conference presentations. A time when people are compelled to make grand statements and mobilize snappy visuals to ...
Moon Trees
A few weeks ago, Joanna joked that I should write a guest post on a subject she and I both find intriguing: moon trees. Even though I find m...
Carlo Ginzburg on the Historian's Craft
This week, the father of the modern microhistory and one of the godparents of modern cultural history in general spoke at the Institute for ...
Gould's fundamental miscalculation
[[Updated on 6 July 2012, to fix a few errors or poor phrasings in my original summary of Lewis et. al.'s paper, following on a producti...
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