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Beyond Failure: Rethinking Confederate State Policies on the Western Frontier
(2015-08-01)This paper was delivered at the Remaking North American Sovereignty conference held in Banff, Canada, July 30-August 1, 2015. -
Drilling Down: Can Historians Operationalize Koselleck’s Stratigraphical Times?
(2015)According to Reinhart Koselleck, in every moment a congeries of “temporal strata” are effectively co-present, but not necessarily coherent, hence the “simultaneity of the nonsimultaneous.” Contrast this with the notion of ... -
Paradoxical Infrastructures: Ruins, Retrofit, and Risk
(2015)In recent years, a dramatic increase in the study of infrastructure has occurred in the social sciences and humanities, following upon foundational work in the physical sciences, architecture, planning, information science, ... -
Remembering Henry: Refugeed Slaves in Civil War Texas
(2014)These are the prepared remarks for a talk at the 2014 OAH Annual Meeting in Atlanta, originally entitled "Refugeed Slaves and the Confederate Rehearsal for Reconstruction." The paper was part of a panel on New Perspectives ... -
Water and Social Space: Using georeferenced maps and geocoded images to enrich the history of Rio de Janeiro's fountains
(2014)Water infrastructure is essential to any city, but especially so in the history of Rio de Janeiro. Historically, Rio de Janeiro lacked easy access to fresh water. Not only was it not situated along a river but it was ... -
Elusive Neutrality: Christian Humanitarianism and the Question of Palestine, 1948-1967
(2014)This article examines the history of Protestant humanitarian interventions on behalf of Palestinian refugees between 1948 and 1967. Deeply concerned with Arab suffering, Protestant churches organized under the World Council ... -
Santa Barbara, Physics, and the Long 1970s
(2013-09)The adaptations of a group of Southern California physicists to the trying conditions of the 1970s anticipated some of the important 21st-century trends in the discipline. -
From Materials Science to Nanotechnology: Institutions, Communities, and Disciplines at Cornell University, 1960-2000
(2013)During the last several decades, interdisciplinary research centers have emerged as a standard, powerful tool for federal funding of university research. This paper contends that this organizational model can be traced to ... -
Failures to Compute
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'A Towering Virtue of Necessity': Interdisciplinarity and the Rise of Computer Music at Vietnam-Era Stanford
(2013)Stanford, more than most American universities, transformed in the early Cold War into a research powerhouse tied to national security priorities. The budgetary and legitimacy crises that beset the military- industrial- ... -
How the Book of Changes Arrived in the West
(2012)In several respects the transmission of the i ching (or book of changes) to the West parallels the process by which Buddhism and Daoism traveled to Europe and the Americas. In each case Western “missionaries” played a part ... -
Amerigo Vespucci and the Four Finger (Kunstmann II) World Map
(2012)Is the anonymous painted map of the world, dated c. 1506 in the Bavarian State Library, also known as the "Four Finger" world chart, or as the Kunstmann II, authored by Amerigo Vespucci? The map was a privately-held, highly ... -
The Case of John L. Brown: Slavery, Sex, South Carolina, and the Whispering Gallery of Transatlantic Abolitionism
(2011-03-09)Please see http://mcdaniel.blogs.rice.edu/?p=105 for an abstract. -
His Brothers' Keeper: John Brown, Moral Stewardship, and Interracial Abolitionism
(2011-03)Recent biographies of abolitionist John Brown emphasize his uniqueness and cast him as an anomalous figure in the antislavery movement. This article, however, makes the case for Brown’s representativeness by connecting his ...
