161 years ago, more than 50,000 Americans died in the Battle of Gettysburg.
In the 21st century, residents of formerly Confederate states express greater support for political violence (even after adjusting for partisanship, race, gender & more).
📖 How did Portugal react to the International Women's Year celebrated in 1975?
This is the question Giulia Strippoli tries to answer in an article published in the Women's History Review.
Interweaving history, memory, written, visual and oral sources, the IHC historian interprets the legacy of the events during the "Hot Summer" of 1975, both on an individual level and from the perspective of women's organisations.
The details of the lower panels of the Ara Pacis are spectacular. The scrolling patterns of the acanthus foliage first catch the eye, but animals are hidden within and the panels are framed by more floral scrollwork and an intricate meander pattern. Beautiful!
TRUNK. A nose. How fares your old trunk? does your nose still stand fast? an allusion to the proboscis or trunk of an elephant. To shove a trunk: to introduce one's self unasked into any place or company. Trunk-maker like; more noise than work.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
Was ist virtuelle Gefangenschaft? Warum kann Freilassung von Nachteil sein? Haft als Vollpension oder Überlebenskampf?
Unser ehemaliger Doktorand Leonard Dorn und Denis Sdvizkov im #Podcast "Wissen entgrenzen" der #MWS über Kriegsgefangenschaft im Siebenjährigen Krieg:
Wie beeinflussen #VectorSpaceModels unsere Wahrnehmung von Ähnlichkeit & unser Verständnis von Ordnung? 🤔
Unter anderem dieser Frage gehen Sebastian Kawanami-Breu (#HUBerlin) & Johan Malmstedt (Umeå University) morgen im #DigitalHistoryOFK aus medienwissenschaftlicher Perspektive auf den Grund und zeichnen zugleich ihre technologische Geschichte nach.
📖 The latest issue of #HosT — Journal of History of Science and Technology is now online!
The thematic dossier dossier for this issue is "Empire under the Night Sky: Recording Astral-Cosmography in Qing Dynasty China, 17th – 19th Centuries".