Contributors

Amber AbbasFor the Sound of Her Voice
Emily Davis AdamsDeath by Chamomile? The Alimentary End of Henry Granville Naimbana
Elizabeth AngellIt Starts with an Earthquake
Carolyn ArenaBellette and Yarico: Working Women in the Colonial West Indies
Susanna AshtonReclaiming a Fugitive Landscape
Andrew AydinExcerpt: March, Book One
Elaine AyersHunting Gorillas in the Land of Cannibals: Making Victorian Field Knowledge in Western Equatorial Africa
Ernesto BassiThe Space Between
Janet BellLocal History: Drumnadrochit, Scotland
Justin Berry_De Re Metallica_Landscapes of Possibility Andean Atlantis: Race, Science and the Nazi Occult in Bolivia
Allison BigelowMining the Languages of Empire in the Early Americas
Nick BlackbournHow to Hide a Nuclear Missile
Anna BlairCambodian Dancers, Auguste Rodin, and the Imperial Imagination
Jenn BlairEdward Emerson Barnard and Sylvester Graham
Gregory BogaertsWoman Filing Her Nails
Sarah BondDivine Reverie: Revelation, Dream Interpretation, and Teeth in Antiquity
Benjamin BreenDon’t Cry for Me, Elanthia: An Archaeology of Gemstone III The King of the Islands of Refreshment How the Space Age Imagined 2014: Asimov’s Predictions, Revisited Did the Renaissance Invent Fashion?Victorian Occultism and the Art of Synesthesia A Pirate Surgeon in Panama Professors and Publics: A Roundtable on Popular History “And Raising His Hand He Gave the Finger to Heaven”: Digs and Disses Throughout History _Hark, a Vagrant_’s Kate Beaton on Comics, History, and Drawing Admiral Nelson Behind the Rocket Cat: Animals in Warfare from Hannibal to World War One Let’s Restore Valentine’s Day to the Wolves Darwin’s Children Drew All Over the On The Origin of Species Manuscript (Updated)How a 1908 Anti-Suffrage Cartoon Became an Internet Sensation The Key of Hell: An Enlightenment Sorcery Manual Meerkats Without History: Digging for a Non-Human Past in the Kalahari Desert Friendly Robots of the Soviet Union Visualizing Drugs Oxford and the Vatican to Digitize 1.5 Million Manuscript Pages The British Library Just Made One Million Images Public Domain, and It’s a Big Deal Weekly Reading: Medieval Spell Books and Mark Swain The Emperor’s Turkey A Nuclear Blast at 30,000 Feet, 1962 Inside the Cosmonaut Survival Kit Audubon in Japan, 1872 Weekly Reading: Blood Books, Impostors, and Blake Made in Taiwan?: An Eighteenth-Century Frenchman’s Fictional Formosa The Deep History of Email Scams [Updated]The Miniature Coffin of Captain Cook Does Outer Space Have a History?Meiji Meth: the Deep History of Illicit Drugs “Why Does S Look Like F?”: A Guide to Reading Very Old Books Enfants Terribles: Royal Births in History _The Appendix_, Appendixed.“This Misterie of Fucking”: A Sex Manual from 1680 Magic Isn’t Rocket Science Photographs, Landscape and Memory _The Appendix_, Appendixed.The Appendix Wishes You a Happy Wolf Day Froger’s Capybara and the Metaphysics of Memes An Appendix Miscellany: Foods and Drugs Calypso’s Island: A Short History of the Apocalypse “Ravens-scull & a Handfull of Fennel”: Early Modern Drugs Responses to Cabinets of Curiosity Cabinets of Curiosity: the Web as Wunderkammer Tempora Mutantur: Between Experimental and Narrative History
Molly BrodakThree Poems
Emily BrownellCropped Out: Environmental History Through a Car Window
Erika BsumekLosing Face
Ashley Buchanan“Pulverized Skull and Rhino Blood”: Recipes of the Last Medici Princess
Daniel BuckSpelunking the “Murk of Outlaw History”Bandit Resurrections: Who Was the Real Sundance Kid?
Will BuckinghamThe Descent of the Lyre
D. Graham BurnettThe Nebulous and the Infinitesimal: A Conversation between D. Graham Burnett and David Gissen
Kristen D. BurtonBlurred Forms: An Unsteady History of Drunkenness “A Toast to Your Health”: Getting Drunk in Colonial America
Jorge Cañizares-EsguerraWhose Apocalypse? A New Mercantile Meaning of the “The End” in the New World circa 1600 A Nineteenth Century “Digital” Humanities?
Kevin CannonThere’s a Starman / Waiting in the Sky: Yuri Gagarin sings!Machu Picchu, Revisited EXCERPT: _Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunderlizards: A Tale of Edward Drinker Cope, Othniel Charles Marsh, and the Gilded Age of Paleontology_The Appendix Guide to Gertrude Bell in the Hauran _The Appendix_, Appendixed.
Zander CannonEXCERPT: _Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunderlizards: A Tale of Edward Drinker Cope, Othniel Charles Marsh, and the Gilded Age of Paleontology_
Hannah CarneyThe Silence of Our Friends Local History as “The Benchmark”
Susana H. CaseShowing His Monster
Joyce ChaplinTerrestriality
Andrew Cohen“The Tremendous Man of Color!!”“On the Island of Thieves”
B.R. CohenThe Appearance of Being Earnest
Mari CrabtreeElegy and Effigy
Maura Elizabeth CunninghamThinking Outside the Archival Box
Jason CurranOx and Pigeon: an Experiment in Online Publishing
Francie DiepThe Passing of the Indians Behind Glass
Christopher DietrichFirst Day of Terror
Lynn DowneyLocal History: The Vulture Mine and Vulture City–Wickenburg, Arizona
Mary DraperThe Man who was Buried Twice
Kate Duffy OsheimThe Prison Palimpsest: A Former Tour Guide Looks Back at Eastern State Penitentiary
Michelle María Early CapistránAmazons, Pirates, and Turtles on the Island of California
Phil EdwardsThe Victorian Inventor of the Wheelie
Ryan EdwardsCSI Buenos Aires: The Crime on Prudan Street
Stassa EdwardsPhotographing the Guillotine A Short History of the Executioner
Veit Erlmann_Curculionidae: Scolytinae_. A Parasitology of Sound
Glynnis FawkesKinyras
Felipe Fernandes CruzAn Art of Air and Fire: Brazil’s Renegade Balloonists The Aviator’s Heart Put A Propeller On It: the Golden Age of Tinkering Archiving the Future Nazis in the Amazon Revisited: the Power of Rumor and Gossip Amazonia 1952: FOUND DECLASSIFIED: Nazi Monks Against The Panama Canal Travel Log: How to Manage Your Own Amputation
Jonathan Fetter-VormTrinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb
Mattias FibigerOff the Record
Emir O. FilipovićOf Cats and Manuscripts
Kristie FlanneryHow a Little Person Became the Most Famous Filipino in Nineteenth-Century Britain
John FranklinKinyras
Tim FulfordSupernatural Sound: Science and Shamanism in the Arctic
Julia GaffieldDeklarasyon Endepandans Ayiti: Rechèch pou jwenn dokiman ki pèdi nan Achiv Mond Atlantik la Haiti’s Declaration of Independence: Digging for Lost Documents in the Archives of the Atlantic World
Virginia Garrard-BurnettTime and the Maya Apocalypse: Guatemala, 1982 and 2012
Matthew GildnerAndean Atlantis: Race, Science and the Nazi Occult in Bolivia
David GissenThe Nebulous and the Infinitesimal: A Conversation between D. Graham Burnett and David Gissen
Daniel S. GoldbergThe History of Pain
Matthew GoldmarkFutures on Demand
Alex GolubThe History of Mana: How an Austronesian Concept Became a Video Game Mechanic Anthropology, Footnoted: Jared Diamond’s _The World Until Yesterday_
Glenda GoodmanPsalms and Silence: The Soundtrack of John Williams’s Captivity
Maggie GreeneThe Woman in Green: A Chinese Ghost Tale from Mao to Ming, 1981-1381
Mark Hailwood“Come hear this ditty”: Seventeenth-Century Drinking Songs and the Challenges of Hearing the Past
Alexis Harasemovitch TruaxThe Many Lives of Ned Coxere: Were British Sailors Really British?
Ryan HarperThe Remains of Amelia Earhart
Darrell HartmanIn King Tut’s Shadow
Christopher HeaneyThere’s a Starman / Waiting in the Sky: Yuri Gagarin sings!Machu Picchu, Revisited _Hark, a Vagrant_’s Kate Beaton on Comics, History, and Drawing Admiral Nelson “One of the Damnedest Trampling Matches You Ever Saw”: When Archaeologists Talk Trash Death of a Sailor: Chapter 3: The Locked Room The Peg-Legged Explorer: An Interview with Kevin Cannon March: Interview with Nate Powell and Andrew Aydin That Time Lenin Played the Theremin Yma Sumac or Amy Camus: A Field Guide to Five Octave Inca Exotica Interview with Alexander Rose of the Long Now Foundation: 10,000 Years Chiming The Toughest Historical Reenactment in America Interview with Jackie Sibblies Drury: The Reenactors Death of a Sailor: Chapter 2: The Hoaxers Days of Future Present: Marvel Comics and “the Most Intricate Fictional Narrative in the History of the World”Interview with Adam Hochschild: The Imaginary Cemetery “Bring Up the Bodies”Death of a Sailor: A Novel History of Murder in 1830s New York, War and Forbidden Love in the Age of Napoleon, and Captivity and Freedom in the Last Days of the Atlantic Slave Trade; in many, many Parts.A helpful reader adds to the mystery of Benjamin the Anti-Christ Letters to the Editor The 11th Century Muslim Guide to Historical Gatecrashing Our Not-So-Funny Pages The Studs Terkel Effect Pt. 2: When Experimental History Is Personal History The Studs Terkel Effect Pt. 1: When Narrative History Is Experimental History
Jonathan D. HepworthReclaiming a Fugitive Landscape
Robinson A. HerreraThe Ambulatory Archive: Santa Muerte Tattoos as Historical Sources
Rachel HerrmannDeath by Chamomile? The Alimentary End of Henry Granville Naimbana
Bruce J. HuntBox Office Bomb: “The Beginning or the End” (1947)
David R. HuntThe Fourth Skull: A Tale of Authenticity and Fraud
Douglas HunterSpectral Passages
Daisuke InoueVoice Hero: The Inventor of Karaoke Speaks
Caroline JackAtomic Anxiety and the Tooth Fairy: Citizen Science in the Midcentury Midwest
Brian Jones_The Appendix_, Appendixed.
Christopher JonesBreaking Brigham: Methamphetamine and Mormon Tea
J.R. Jones
JTWThe Origins of the Blues
Melissa KagenControlling Sound: Musical Torture from the Shoah to Guantánamo
Lindsay KeiterInterpreting “Physick”: The Familiar and Foreign Eighteenth-Century Body
Kevin KellerShameless, Villainous, and Wicked: a Keller Family History
Andrea Kinnison
Carla KlehmTrade Tales and Tiny Trails: Glass Beads in the Kalahari Desert
Amy KohoutFrom the Aviary: _Haliaeetus leucocephalus_
Miriam KolarTuned to the Senses: An Archaeoacoustic Perspective on Ancient Chavín
Maya KoretzkyWhite Nights
Bernie KrauseBiophony and the Deep History of Sound
Corinne Wieben LampertInternational Diplomacy (and Chocolate) in the Archives
John Patrick LearyWhy Did J.P. Morgan’s Prize Bulldog Die of Shame?
Kathryn LehmanThe Rapid of Hope and the Life of an Amazonian Boom-Town
David LererThe Hawaiian Invasion
John LewisExcerpt: March, Book One
Mary Caton LingoldListening to the Past: An African-American Lullaby
Livius DrususSmoking, Women’s Rights, and a Really Great Fake Bar: The Lady Smoking Caper of Ought Eight
Bess LovejoyThe Double World: One Man’s Search for Meaning in the Seattle Public Library
Duncan MacdonaldLocal History: Drumnadrochit, Scotland
India MandelkernThe Politics of the Turtle Feast
Rachel MarcyDancers and Diplomats: New York City Ballet in Moscow, October 1962
Katherine Marsh_Jepp, Who Defied the Stars_
Laura Jane MartinSpace Cadets and Rat Utopias
Kathleen McCampbellMaximón, a Maya Saint in Sunglasses
Jed McGowanDivining the Future in Babylonia Hawaii
Charles McNamaraA New Yorker’s Roman War against Germany
Jonathan MeiburgInside the American Museum of Natural History’s Hidden Masterpiece
Zoila MendozaFrom Folklore to Exotica: Yma Sumac and the Performance of Inca Identity
Diarmid MoggMug Shots: A Small Town Noir
Barbara E. MundyMapping Babel: A Sixteenth-Century Indigenous Map from Mexico
Shannon Nagy
Joan NeubergerResponse to ‘A Nineteenth Century “Digital” Humanities?’
Matthew NeujahrDivine Reverie: Revelation, Dream Interpretation, and Teeth in Antiquity
Marissa NicosiaLobsters in the Archive Monstrous News: the Futures of the _Mistris Parliament_ Plays
Melody NixonSürgün
Noble KatherineAnimal Kingdoms
Mairin OdleIndelible Ink: The Deep History of Tattoo Removal
Rebecca OnionHoney, You’re Scaring the Kids
Jim OttavianiEXCERPT: _Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunderlizards: A Tale of Edward Drinker Cope, Othniel Charles Marsh, and the Gilded Age of Paleontology__Levitation: Physics and Psychology in the Service of Deception_
Rachel Ozanne“To Wait Together upon the Lord in Pure Silence”
Brooke PalmieriThe Wild, The Innocent, and The Quaker’s Struggles
Cara ParksThe Peripatetic Life of Isabella Bird
Ansel PayneA Much Too Distant Mirror: Against Animal Histories
Erin PinedaPresent Tense, Future Perfect: Protest and Progress at the 1964 World’s Fair
Rachel N. PonceFever to Tell: Interactive Storytelling Online and the History of Philadelphia’s Yellow Fever Outbreak, 1793
Tina PostThe Phantom Punch
Nate PowellExcerpt: March, Book One
Michael Press“The Lying Pen of the Scribes”: A Nineteenth-Century Dead Sea Scroll
Lydia PyneTo Russia, With Love Quests for Fire: Neanderthals and Science Fiction Piltdown Man: Untangling One of the Most Infamous Hoaxes in Scientific History Ditsong’s Dioramas: Putting a Body on a Fossil and a Fossil in a Narrative St. George and the Pterodactyl
Steve PyneMoved by Fire: History’s Promethean Moment
Lisa Ruth RandThe Case for Female Astronauts: Reproducing Americans in the Final Frontier
Amy ReadingThe Lady Vanishes
Darren ReidSilent Film Killed the Clown: Recovering the Lost Life and Silent Film of Marceline Orbes, the Suicidal Clown of the New York Hippodrome, 1905-1915
Jacob RemesHistorical Crushes: Annie Burlak
Gina RiveraExploring Music and Color in Nineteenth-Century France Music and Color: the French Connection
Linda RodriguezEl Ñáñigo: A Spirit Dancer Of Afro-Cuba Free Cuba: Runaway Slave Advertisements from Colonial Havana
Ariel RonTechnofy Your Mind: Cybotron and 30 Years of Detroit Techno The Golden Likeness American Panopticon: How a Small Town Foreshadowed the Surveillance State
Anna Marie RoosPerchance to Dream: Science and the Future
Cassia RothAngelica’s Baby: Pregnancy Narratives in Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro
Aaron SachsBack to the Neotechnic Future: An Online Chat With the Ghost of Lewis Mumford
Daniel SalasTechnology and Apocalypse in America
Nate SchweberLocal History Excerpt: I Rode with Red Scout: When Yellowstone’s Early Tourists Stumbled into Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce’s Final War
Brandy SchillaceMother Machine: an ‘Uncanny Valley’ in the Eighteenth Century
Michael Schmidt_The Appendix_, Appendixed.Open Sound, Musical Curation, and the Delightful Objectness of Wax: Interviews with Light in the Attic and Clifford Allen “Nancy Grows Up,” the Media Age, and the Historian’s Craft Doctored Beatles Images, Rolling Stone Puppies, and the Regression of History
Claire SchwartzOn Looking: Friendship and the New Haven Green
Robert ScottVoice Hero: The Inventor of Karaoke Speaks
Roy ScrantonThe Curse of Coherence: Cold War CIA Funding for Oulipo’s _Confidence-Man_
Charles ShawThe Most Soviet Park in Russia
Kyle SheltonFeet First: Walking in Houston
Jackie Sibblies DruryStage Excerpt: _We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South West Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915_
Danielle SkeehanDeadly Notes: Atlantic Soundscapes and the Writing of the Middle Passage
Blake SmithRobot of Jihad? A Guide to Tipu’s Tiger An Indian Merchant in Marseilles, 1792
Chris A. SmithSearching for Jagari We’re a Zambian Band Radio Freedom: A History of South African Underground Radio Rules of the Tribe: Hardcore Punks and Hair Metal in the 1980s
Lisa SmithBespelled in the Archives
Stephanie SteinhardtAtomic Anxiety and the Tooth Fairy: Citizen Science in the Midcentury Midwest
Gabriel SteptoLieutenant Nun
Michele SteptoBasin Lieutenant Nun
Cameron B. StrangHeavy Metal as Public History: A Review of Turisas, Live at the Gramercy Theater
Adrian TealThe Gin Lane Gazette and the History of Cartoons
Mark ThurnerWelcome to Atlantis: The Solid Illusions of History
Sean TrainorThe Beard That Wasn’t: Abe Lincoln’s Whiskers
Jane MacLaren WalshThe Fourth Skull: A Tale of Authenticity and Fraud
Josi WardFollowing a Migrant Route
Caroline WazerHow Victorian London Almost Ended Up with a Roman Sewer
Jonathan WebsterSolitude and _Sandaya_: The Strange History of Pianos in Burma
Elizabeth WeinbergA Satisfying View
John WenzI Sing the Body Atomic: Nuclear Transformation in the Marvel Universe
Robert WhitakerProto-Spam: Spanish Prisoners and Confidence Games Cops and Robbers: Why the Church of Scientology Hated Interpol
Michael P. WilliamsParty Like It’s 1999: Japanese Retrofuturism and Chrono Trigger
Matthew WillisWhere Be Monsters? The Daedalus Sea Serpent and the War for Credibility
Rebecca WoodsFlesh Made Wood: The Invention of Artificial Refrigeration
Grant WythoffThe Invention of Wireless Cryptography