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History of Science
Interviews with historians of science about their new books.
April 15, 2024
Arctic Circles and Imperial Knowledge
In 1845 an expedition led by Sir John Franklin vanished in the Canadian Arctic. The enduring obsession with the Franklin mystery, and in particular In…
April 15, 2024
Symbols and Things
The stereotype of the solitary mathematician is widespread, but practicing users and producers of mathematics know well that our work depends heavily …
April 15, 2024
Theorizing Music Evolution
What did historical evolutionists such as Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer have to say about music? What role did music play in their evolutionary t…
April 14, 2024
Our Genes
Situated at the intersection of natural science and philosophy, Our Genes: A Philosophical Perspective on Human Evolutionary Genomics (Cambridge Unive…
April 13, 2024
Space Rover
In 1971, the first lunar rover arrived on the moon. The design became an icon of American ingenuity and the adventurous spirit and vision many equated…
April 9, 2024
A History of Modern Linguistics
Ingrid Piller speaks with James McElvenny about his new book A History of Modern Linguistics: From the Beginnings to World War II (Edinburgh UP, 2024)…
April 3, 2024
The Invention of Prehistory
Books about the origins of humanity dominate bestseller lists, while national newspapers present breathless accounts of new archaeological findings an…
April 1, 2024
The Beauty of Falling
Claudia de Rham has been playing with gravity her entire life. As a diver, experimenting with her body's buoyancy in the Indian Ocean. As a pilot, soa…
March 31, 2024
Kant, Race, and Racism
Kant scholars have paid relatively little attention to his raciology. They assume that his racism, as personal prejudice, can be disentangled from his…
March 30, 2024
Dark Star
In Dark Star: A New History of the Space Shuttle (MIT Press, 2023), Dr. Matthew Hersch challenges the existing narrative of the most significant human…
March 24, 2024
Anthropology and Race in Belgium and the Congo (1839-1922)
Maarten Couttenier's Anthropology and Race in Belgium and the Congo (1839-1922) (Routledge, 2023) examines the history of Belgian physical anthropolog…
March 21, 2024
Slouch
In 1995, a scandal erupted when the New York Times revealed that the Smithsonian possessed a century's worth of nude "posture" photos of college stude…
March 16, 2024
Climate Change and International History
Exploring how climate change has configured the international arena since the 1950s, Climate Change and International History: Negotiating Science, Gl…
March 10, 2024
Rivals
In Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate (Columbia Global Reports, 2023), Lorraine Daston, Director Emerita of the Max Planck Institute for the …
March 8, 2024
Mapping the Darkness
Why do we sleep? How can we improve our sleep? A century ago, sleep was considered a state of nothingness—even a primitive habit that we could learn …
March 6, 2024
Economists at War
Wartime is not just about military success. Economists at War: How a Handful of Economists Helped Win and Lose the World Wars (Oxford UP, 2020) tells …
March 2, 2024
Men's Sexual Health in Early Modern England
How did men cope with sexual health issues in early modern England? In Men's Sexual Health in Early Modern England (Amsterdam University Press, 2023),…
February 28, 2024
Immeasurable Weather
In Immeasurable Weather: Meteorological Data and Settler Colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy (Duke UP, 2023), Sara J. Grossman explores how envir…
February 14, 2024
The French Invention of Menopause and the Medicalisation of Women's Ageing
In The French Invention of Menopause and the Medicalisation of Women's Ageing (Oxford University Press, 2022), Alison Downham Moore discusses her cont…
January 30, 2024
Transforming Noise
Today, the concept of noise is employed to characterize random fluctuations in general. Before the twentieth century, however, noise only meant distur…