Black Watermen of the Chesapeake
Mid-nineteenth century Maryland offered pseudo-freedom to African Americans who lived and worked on the water.
Little Ice Age
Professor Suzannah Lipscomb discusses the impact of the Little Ice Age, a period of significant cooling from the 15th to early 19th centuries that caused widespread famine, drought, and socio-economic…
Nosferatu (2024 film)
Nosferatu is a 2024 American Gothic horror film written and directed by Robert Eggers. It is a remake of the film Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922), itself an unauthorized…
The riddles of Heinrich Hermann Mebes
Five notebooks delicately bound, filled with drawings, words, allegories emblems, precise yet disordered
Frankenstein inspired by suicide of Mary Shelley’s half-sister, book reveals
The twin tragedies alter the understanding of the themes of Frankenstein. It is often read as a warning about the perils of science, but as the daughter of Wollstonecraft, England’s…
Conservative MP Antoinette Sandbach
and her family ties to the trans Atlantic slave trade
Feeble Spark – Zine
Color photos of artefacts from the Sisters of Chairty of New York and the New York Foundling
Internet Vs Ocean: the essential wires we never think about
Did you know that the internet is held together by a network of undersea cables? And did you also know that these cables can trace their origin back to 1850s?…
Children say it every day in school, but have you ever wondered why we recite the pledge of allegiance?
We journey back to the late 1800s to understand how a massive wave of immigration and sagging magazine subscriptions gave rise to this vow of patriotism. From the Civil War…
The People of the State of California v. George W. Hall
the worst statutory interpretation case in history.