Blog Archives

• 2012

• Tempora Mutantur: Between Experimental and Narrative History By Benjamin Breen — Published November 11, 2012
• Travel Log: How to Manage Your Own Amputation By Felipe Fernandes Cruz — Published November 16, 2012
• The Studs Terkel Effect Pt. 1: When Narrative History Is Experimental History By Christopher Heaney — Published November 19, 2012
• The Studs Terkel Effect Pt. 2: When Experimental History Is Personal History By Christopher Heaney — Published November 21, 2012
• DECLASSIFIED: Nazi Monks Against The Panama Canal By Felipe Fernandes Cruz — Published November 23, 2012
• The Appendix Opens to Subscribers Published November 26, 2012
• Our Not-So-Funny Pages By Christopher Heaney — Published November 26, 2012
• Cabinets of Curiosity: the Web as Wunderkammer By Benjamin Breen — Published November 28, 2012
• The 11th Century Muslim Guide to Historical Gatecrashing By Christopher Heaney — Published November 29, 2012
• Responses to Cabinets of Curiosity By Benjamin Breen — Published December 3, 2012
• Local History as “The Benchmark” By Hannah Carney — Published December 5, 2012
• Letters to the Editor By Christopher Heaney — Published December 7, 2012
• A Nineteenth Century “Digital” Humanities? By Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra — Published December 10, 2012
• Response to ‘A Nineteenth Century “Digital” Humanities?’ By Joan Neuberger — Published December 11, 2012
• “Ravens-scull & a Handfull of Fennel”: Early Modern Drugs By Benjamin Breen — Published December 18, 2012
• Doctored Beatles Images, Rolling Stone Puppies, and the Regression of History By Michael Schmidt — Published December 24, 2012

• 2013

• An Appendix Miscellany: Foods and Drugs By Benjamin Breen — Published January 9, 2013
• A helpful reader adds to the mystery of Benjamin the Anti-Christ By Christopher Heaney — Published January 14, 2013
• Froger’s Capybara and the Metaphysics of Memes By Benjamin Breen — Published January 21, 2013
• “Bring Up the Bodies” By Christopher Heaney — Published January 24, 2013
• Nazis in the Amazon Revisited: the Power of Rumor and Gossip By Felipe Fernandes Cruz — Published January 29, 2013
• “Pulverized Skull and Rhino Blood”: Recipes of the Last Medici Princess By Ashley Buchanan — Published February 8, 2013
• The Appendix Wishes You a Happy Wolf Day By Benjamin Breen — Published February 14, 2013
• “A Toast to Your Health”: Getting Drunk in Colonial America By Kristen D. Burton — Published February 25, 2013
• Of Cats and Manuscripts By Emir O. Filipović — Published March 5, 2013
• Discount on Subscriptions and a Sneak Peek of Issue Two Published March 20, 2013
• It Starts with an Earthquake By Elizabeth Angell — Published March 26, 2013
• Archiving the Future By Felipe Fernandes Cruz — Published March 28, 2013
• Photographs, Landscape and Memory By Benjamin Breen — Published April 15, 2013
• Bellette and Yarico: Working Women in the Colonial West Indies By Carolyn Arena — Published April 22, 2013
• Magic Isn’t Rocket Science By Benjamin Breen — Published May 8, 2013
• Cops and Robbers: Why the Church of Scientology Hated Interpol By Robert Whitaker — Published May 16, 2013
• Ox and Pigeon: an Experiment in Online Publishing By Jason Curran — Published May 22, 2013
• Landscapes of Possibility By Justin Berry — Published June 6, 2013
• Welcome to Atlantis: The Solid Illusions of History By Mark Thurner — Published June 20, 2013
• “This Misterie of Fucking”: A Sex Manual from 1680 By Benjamin Breen — Published June 25, 2013
• Free Cuba: Runaway Slave Advertisements from Colonial Havana By Linda Rodriguez — Published July 9, 2013
• Enfants Terribles: Royal Births in History By Benjamin Breen — Published July 23, 2013
• “Why Does S Look Like F?”: A Guide to Reading Very Old Books By Benjamin Breen — Published July 31, 2013
• The Toughest Historical Reenactment in America By Christopher Heaney — Published August 7, 2013
• The Gin Lane Gazette and the History of Cartoons By Adrian Teal — Published August 13, 2013
• Music and Color: the French Connection By Gina Rivera — Published August 21, 2013
• Meiji Meth: the Deep History of Illicit Drugs By Benjamin Breen — Published August 23, 2013
• Issue Four Preview: Jackson Unchained Published August 26, 2013
• Yma Sumac or Amy Camus: A Field Guide to Five Octave Inca Exotica By Christopher Heaney — Published August 28, 2013
• Breaking Brigham: Methamphetamine and Mormon Tea By Christopher Jones — Published September 9, 2013
• That Time Lenin Played the Theremin By Christopher Heaney — Published September 16, 2013
• Does Outer Space Have a History? By Benjamin Breen — Published September 25, 2013
• Exploring Music and Color in Nineteenth-Century France By Gina Rivera — Published October 8, 2013
• The Miniature Coffin of Captain Cook By Benjamin Breen — Published October 11, 2013
• The Deep History of Email Scams [Updated] By Benjamin Breen — Published October 24, 2013
• Weekly Reading: Blood Books, Impostors, and Blake By Benjamin Breen — Published November 4, 2013
• American Panopticon: How a Small Town Foreshadowed the Surveillance State By Ariel Ron — Published November 6, 2013
• Audubon in Japan, 1872 By Benjamin Breen — Published November 8, 2013
• The Peg-Legged Explorer: An Interview with Kevin Cannon By Christopher Heaney — Published November 11, 2013
• Weekly Reading: Silk Roads, Dragons, and GIFs Published November 15, 2013
• Announcing Monthly Subscriptions Published November 18, 2013
• Inside the Cosmonaut Survival Kit By Benjamin Breen — Published November 19, 2013
• A Nuclear Blast at 30,000 Feet, 1962 By Benjamin Breen — Published November 21, 2013
• Weekly Reading: Love Telegrams, Field Notes, and Bronze Age Wine Published November 25, 2013
• The Emperor’s Turkey By Benjamin Breen — Published November 28, 2013
• Weekly Reading: Medieval Spell Books and Mark Swain By Benjamin Breen — Published December 2, 2013
• An Indian Merchant in Marseilles, 1792 By Blake Smith — Published December 12, 2013
• The British Library Just Made One Million Images Public Domain, and It’s a Big Deal By Benjamin Breen — Published December 15, 2013
• The Appendix Makes a Great Last-Minute Gift Published December 16, 2013
• Oxford and the Vatican to Digitize 1.5 Million Manuscript Pages By Benjamin Breen — Published December 18, 2013
• Radio Freedom: A History of South African Underground Radio By Chris A. Smith — Published December 20, 2013
• Visualizing Drugs By Benjamin Breen — Published December 29, 2013

• 2014

• Technofy Your Mind: Cybotron and 30 Years of Detroit Techno By Ariel Ron — Published January 2, 2014
• Friendly Robots of the Soviet Union By Benjamin Breen — Published January 8, 2014
• The Key of Hell: An Enlightenment Sorcery Manual By Benjamin Breen — Published January 30, 2014
• How a 1908 Anti-Suffrage Cartoon Became an Internet Sensation By Benjamin Breen — Published February 3, 2014
• Deklarasyon Endepandans Ayiti: Rechèch pou jwenn dokiman ki pèdi nan Achiv Mond Atlantik la By Julia Gaffield — Published February 5, 2014
• Smoking, Women’s Rights, and a Really Great Fake Bar: The Lady Smoking Caper of Ought Eight By Livius Drusus — Published February 7, 2014
• Darwin’s Children Drew All Over the On The Origin of Species Manuscript (Updated) By Benjamin Breen — Published February 12, 2014
• Let’s Restore Valentine’s Day to the Wolves By Benjamin Breen — Published February 14, 2014
• How a Little Person Became the Most Famous Filipino in Nineteenth-Century Britain By Kristie Flannery — Published February 21, 2014
• Put A Propeller On It: the Golden Age of Tinkering By Felipe Fernandes Cruz — Published February 24, 2014
• St. George and the Pterodactyl By Lydia Pyne — Published February 28, 2014
• Behind the Rocket Cat: Animals in Warfare from Hannibal to World War One By Benjamin Breen — Published March 6, 2014
• Professors and Publics: A Roundtable on Popular History By Benjamin Breen — Published March 20, 2014
• Spelunking the “Murk of Outlaw History” By Daniel Buck — Published April 1, 2014
• A New Yorker’s Roman War against Germany By Charles McNamara — Published April 7, 2014
• The Victorian Inventor of the Wheelie By Phil Edwards — Published April 16, 2014
• The History of Pain By Daniel S. Goldberg — Published April 29, 2014
• Piltdown Man: Untangling One of the Most Infamous Hoaxes in Scientific History By Lydia Pyne — Published May 16, 2014
• A Short History of the Executioner By Stassa Edwards — Published June 11, 2014
• Did the Renaissance Invent Fashion? By Benjamin Breen — Published June 30, 2014
• How the Space Age Imagined 2014: Asimov’s Predictions, Revisited By Benjamin Breen — Published July 3, 2014
• How to Hide a Nuclear Missile By Nick Blackbourn — Published July 30, 2014
• Technology and Apocalypse in America By Daniel Salas — Published August 27, 2014
• Searching for Jagari By Chris A. Smith — Published September 30, 2014
• Lobsters in the Archive By Marissa Nicosia — Published December 1, 2014

• 2015

• An Update from the Editors Published April 17, 2015