When Jorge Luis Borges met one of the founders of AI

Lapham's Quarterly Announces New Stewardship

Legacy of the Angels

The Wright brothers invented the airplane, right? Not if you're in Brazil

Pain Management Before Anaesthetics

Small Archives

Somnium Scipionis

Diobolgeldæ (The Devil's Money): The Early-Medieval Cult Site of Hezingen

Games We Played

AI legibility, physical archives, and the future of research

Lonesome George

The Drift of Things: David Goodman Croly's Glimpses of the Future (1888)

The Emperor's New Clothes: Fashion, Politics, and Identity in Mughal South Asia

Rifling through the archives with Robert Caro

Gustatory Wisdom: Bruegel the Elder's Twelve Proverbs (1558)

Computer Simulation of Neural Networks Using Spreadsheets (2018)

An Economic Approach to Homer's Odyssey: Part I

Turtle (Submersible)

Incised artefacts from the Middle Palaeolithic and human behavioural complexity

Shadows of the Coming Race (1879)

George Eliot's reflections on AGI from 1879

Edgware 1924: The Making of a Suburb

Wolf Interval

An Egyptian Temple Reborn

Laryngeal Theory

The familiar loneliness of the Kinetoscope

A luminous, brave, and unputdownable article about blurbs

Gold-Digging Ant

RCA and the Roaring Twenties

Using generative AI as part of historical research: three case studies

2k-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past

Strontium isoscape of sub-Saharan Africa allows tracing slave trade (2024)

Mummies' Ancient Tattoos Come Under Laser Focus

Sutton Hoo and Syria: Anglo-Saxons who served in the Byzantine army?

How Pac-Man Revolutionized Gaming (2020)

Public Domain Image Archive

Wends of Texas

Stone selection by wild chimpanzees shares patterns with Oldowan hominins

Dancing Days of the Maya

The accidental invention of the snow globe (2024)

Archimedes, Vitruvius and Leonardo: The Odometer Connection (2020)

Abstand and Ausbau Languages

Secondary Consciousness

White House Reconstruction

Gods: Charles Fort's Book of the Damned (1919)

Synergistic, multi-level understanding of psychedelics

Why did clothing become boring?

Minakata Kumagusu

For the Love of a Little Sea

Magicians Mount Search for Woman Behind Decades-Old Deception

With DNA, Pompeii Narratives Take a Twist

Reconstruction of Lomonosov's Discovery of Venus's Atmosphere (2012) [pdf]

The Brothers Grimm: A Biography

Diving to Drink a 19th-Century Shipwreck's Treasure

A deep history of Halloween

The Frankfurt Kitchen (2011)

Post-postal: What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?

What Makes Good Historical Fiction?

The Roman Catholic War on Wigs

Deep learning-based detection of qanat water systems using spy satellite imagery

On 17th century "cocaine"

Age of Invention: The Coal Conquest

Bronze Age cheese reveals human-Lactobacillus interactions over history

Yasuke

The User Manual for the Oldest Surviving Computer in the World (2020)

Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri

Aliens and the Enlightenment

How to make 3k-year-old beer

Excuse this ghastly handwriting: When letter writers become self-conscious

Sure and Certain Methods of Attaining a Long and Healthful Life (1722 Edition)

Persian Silver in Early Medieval Scotland

Caftan (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Forensic toxicology backdates the use of coca plant in Europe to the early 1600s

Early Scenes: Remembering a Childhood in the South Bronx

'The Cheese and the Worms': Carlo Ginzburg Launches Microhistory

King John's Lost Treasure

The voyage of the Altar Stone: A Stonehenge mystery solved (maybe)

A Nice, Provocative Silence: An Interview with the Author of Cahokia Jazz

Voice is a garden: Margaret Watts Hughes's Victorian sound visualizations

Just Say It, Henry

Ettore Majorana

Kepler's 400-year-old sunspot sketches helped solve a modern mystery

Lewis Lapham has died

Experimental replication of early human behaviour in bird preparation

The Man Who Invented Times Square

Agenda (1988 Video Game)

Paper cuttings made by 17th-century schoolgirls discovered beneath floorboards

Identification and measurement of economic growth in a Roman imperial province

Johannes Hartlieb's Book of Herbs (1462)

How the Denisovans Survived the Ice Age