Illusions—April 2013—The Appendix

Illusions

April 2013 – Volume 1, Number 2

In creating and tracing illusions, we risk being caught ourselves. Historians once limited themselves to determining which source was more trustworthy; which fact more true. Today we’re more open to the possibility that archives lie, that insights can be gained from these lies, and that what we seek in our investigations changes us—and sometimes even the historical record itself.

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Executive Editor: Christopher Heaney
Managing Editor: Felipe Fernandes Cruz
Creative Editor: Benjamin Breen
Publisher: Brian Jones
Contributing Editor: Amy Kohout
Local History Editor: Hannah Carney

1.
Letter from the Editors
2.
Letters to The Appendix
3.
Lieutenant Nun By Michele Stepto and Gabriel Stepto
4.
The Double World: One Man’s Search for Meaning in the Seattle Public Library By Bess Lovejoy
5.
The Phantom Punch By Tina Post
6.
The Fourth Skull: A Tale of Authenticity and Fraud By Jane MacLaren Walsh and David R. Hunt
7.
Death of a Sailor: Chapter 2: The Hoaxers By Christopher Heaney
8.
Local History: Drumnadrochit, Scotland By Janet Bell and Duncan Macdonald
9.
Bespelled in the Archives By Lisa Smith
10.
Showing His Monster By Susana H. Case
11.
From the Aviary: Haliaeetus leucocephalus By Amy Kohout
12.
Mother Machine: an ‘Uncanny Valley’ in the Eighteenth Century By Brandy Schillace
13.
The Many Lives of Ned Coxere: Were British Sailors Really British? By Alexis Harasemovitch Truax
14.
Spectral Passages By Douglas Hunter
15.
The Lady Vanishes By Amy Reading
16.
Woman Filing Her Nails By Gregory Bogaerts
17.
Andean Atlantis: Race, Science and the Nazi Occult in Bolivia By Matthew Gildner
18.
Stage 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 By Jackie Sibblies Drury
19.
Interview with Jackie Sibblies Drury: The Reenactors By Christopher Heaney
20.
The Woman in Green: A Chinese Ghost Tale from Mao to Ming, 1981-1381 By Maggie Greene
21.
Jepp, Who Defied the Stars By Katherine Marsh
22.
Anthropology, Footnoted: Jared Diamond’s The World Until Yesterday By Alex Golub
23.
“The Tremendous Man of Color!!” By Andrew Cohen
24.
Levitation: Physics and Psychology in the Service of Deception By Jim Ottaviani
25.
The Appendix, Appendixed. By Benjamin Breen