The remaking of Hanoi as a capital of French empire from the end of the nineteenth century had unintended consequences...

"Indistractable" offers a theoretical framework for the powerful distractions each of us encounters every single day...

Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen discrimination...

Rozwadowski talks about the history of the oceans and how these oceans have shaped human history in profound ways...

Standards are crucial to the way we live—just look around you. A no. 2 pencil, perhaps?

Schotte charts more than two hundred years of navigational history as she investigates how mariners solved the challenges of navigating beyond sight of land...

Frederic Tudor was the “Ice King” of early nineteenth-century America..

Both colonies and insane asylums are well known institutions of power. But what of asylums in Europe’s early 20th-century colonial empires?

The history of anthropology remembers James Teit as a field assistant and man-on-the spot for Franz Boas...

How do you reconcile the fact that, in a democracy, everyone’s vote is equal but everyone’s opinion is not?

Daggett suggests that reassessing our relationships with fossil fuels in the face of climate change also requires that we rethink the concept of energy itself...

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

In 1845, two British naval ships left England with 129 men in search of the Northwest Passage...

Pietruska assesses how different varieties of forecasting created an often-contradictory “culture of prediction” during the rise of modern bureaucracies...

Black covers the history of the mapping of land wars, and shows the way in which maps provide a guide to the history of war...

Bernard examines the hashtag’s role in changing how we define and discuss keywords...

From 1931 to 1945, leaders of the SS sought to transform their organization into a racially-elite family community that would serve as the Third Reich’s new aristocracy...

With the threats of sea water warming and ocean acidification, coral reefs have become both a fire alarm and a barometer for the dangers of human induced climate change...

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

Think economics is the "dismal science" with abstract formulas that have no impact on life as it is actually lived? Think again...

Olson talks about why the idea of outer space as a “frontier” is giving way to one that frames it as a cosmic ecosystem...

Dalrymple recounts each week’s new edition of the Journal with an eye toward analytical errors and a culture of political correctness in regard to the handling of medical and public health issues...

Roberts anchors 20 biographical chapters to a decadal series of events, whose mathematical significance could not often have been anticipated...

Over fifty years ago, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) scolded the agricultural industry for its profligate spread of “poison” and pesticides “indiscriminately from the skies"...

DeLoughrey argues that the cosmopolitan position on Global Warming is in truth a provincial one limited to privileged circles in the Global North...