Historian of science, mostly medieval to early modern astronomy & mathematical arts. Things German, Polish, Egyptian, or hey that looks interesting. Ex public policy + occasional tuba. Copernicus book in progress. Don't get long covid, it sucks.
Karl Galle
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1.) For non-Americans and/or younglings, HUAC = House Un-American Activities Committee.
2.) Natalie Zeamon Davis talks about the connection between having her passport confiscated and how she had to reorganize her early research in this essay for @nybooks.com: www.nybooks.com/online/2013/...
This is a great read for history / economics / finance nerds. (Complimentary; I wrote my senior thesis on the first 50 years of the Federal Reserve).
Some people in comments said his gift link didn't work so here's another: www.wsj.com/finance/gild...
Make some paper with us at the Library of Congress!
We make paper at the Library to create a body of reference samples for material science research. This research helps support the preservation of our collections.
Yes, I'm sure the work of a woman who [checks notes] wrote anti-HUAC pamphlets, had her husband jailed for refusing to testify before HUAC, & whose early US work grew out of having the FBI confiscate her passport to travel overseas was entirely NOT political. 🧐 🤔 www.history.utoronto.ca/node/4594
A reminders in this time of racist incitement around violent crime that last year a full *21 percent* of US homicides were from ex-husbands and ex-boyfriends murdering their former partners and children, and I don’t see anyone inciting pogroms against men: wapo.st/3RQKwCf [gift link]
I've told this story before but as a little kid i told everyone i was going to be a garbage truck driver when i grew up. when i became an archaeologist, my parents told me they were proud that i had held onto my childhood dream of collecting other people's rubbish
Hello! Please pre-order my new book, Necessary Inventions: Roger Bacon, the Middle Ages, and the Making of Modern Science. You can get 40% off if you order by June 12; just use the code PENN-SUMMER26. www.pennpress.org/978151282988...
"Illustrations, diagrams, and other non-topographical features on maps from the European Middle Ages and the Renaissance weren’t mere “decoration”, as old-fashioned map historians insist; they were part of what maps were for."
Latest newsletter: medieval maps!
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To the extent that people are angry (as they very much should be!) about the horrific war on science, they also need to get angry about this outrageous war on the humanities. Both attack peer reviewed research that doesn’t happen to fit with a center-right worldview.
