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Science/Medicine/Technology

Review of The Science of Useful Nature in Central America: Landscapes, Networks, and Practical Enlightenment, 1784–1838, by Sophie Brockmann (2020).

Review of From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age(2023) by Xaq Frohlich

Review of A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa (2022) by Robyn d’Avignon

Review of Electric News in Colonial Algeria (2019) by Arthur Asseraf

Review of Radio for the Millions: Hindi-Urdu Broadcasting Across Borders (2023) by Isabel Huacuja Alonso

Review of Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914 (2010) by J. R. McNeill

Breaking ChatGPT: Good Teaching Still Beats the Best AI

Fear Not the Bot: ChatGPT as Just One More Screwdriver in the Tool Kit

Review of Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait (2019) by Bathsheba Demuth

Review of Guaraná: How Brazil Embraced the World’s Most Caffeine-Rich Plant (2022) by Seth Garfield

Review of After the Flood: Imagining the Global Environment in Early Modern Europe by Lydia Barnett (2019)

Review of The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land (2002) by Conevery Bolton Valencius

The New World and Beyond: A Review of New World Nature

Review of The Butterfly Effect: Insects and the Making of the Modern World (2020)

Review of The Butterfly Effect: Insects and the Making of the Modern World (2020)

Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America before the Second World War – a debate between suffering and medical knowledge for the greater good

Cotton, Coal, and Capitalism: Review of Aaron Jakes’ Egypt’s Occupation and On Barak’s Powering Empire

Book cover of Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science by Christopher C. Sellers

Review of Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science (1997) by Christopher Sellers

IHS Climate in Context Roundtable Book Review: Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene (2018) Edited by Gregg Mitman, Marco Armiero, Robert S. Emmett

Digital Archive Review: Age of Revolutions and the Newberry French Pamphlet Collection

On the Backs of Tortoises: Darwin, the Galápagos, and the Fate of an Evolutionary Eden by Elizabeth Hennessy (2019)

A Temperate Empire: Making Climate Change in Early America by Anya Zilberstein (2016)

IHS Climate in Context Roundtable Book Review: The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution (1980) by Carolyn Merchant

The Alchemy of Conquest: Science, Religion, and the Secrets of the New World By Ralph Bauer (2019)

IHS Climate in Context Digital Archive Review: Tools and Resources for Studying Environmental History

The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt by Jennifer L. Derr (2019)

Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the U.S.-Mexico Divide by C.J. Alvarez (2019)

Red China’s Green Revolution: Technological Innovation, Institutional Change, and Economic Development under the Commune by Joshua Eisenman (2018)

The Habsburg Empire: A New History by Pieter Judson (2016)

Book cover of Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane by James Delbourgo

Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum by James Delbourgo (2017)

How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS, by David France (2016)

Great Books on Women’s History: United States

This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age, by William Burrows (1998)

The Professor and the Madman, by Simon Winchester (2005)

Digital History: A Guide by Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig (2006): New Archive (No. 18)

Visible Empire: Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment, by Daniela Bleichmar (2012)

The Making of Man-Midwifery: Childbirth in England 1660-1770, by Adrian Wilson (1995)

Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination, by Joyce Appleby (2013)

An Emotional Database: The New Archive (No. 8)

History in Motion: The New Archive (No. 4)

Book cover of The Ottoman Age of Exploration by Giancarlo Casale

The Ottoman Age of Exploration by Giancarlo Casale (2010)

The Discovery of Jeanne Baret: A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe, by Glynis Ridley (2010)

University of Texas at Austin: History of the Physics Department

Book cover of Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World by Jill Jonnes

Great Books on Science & Technology – Light & Power

Movie poster of the movie MoneyBall

Film Review – Baseball by the Numbers: Moneyball (2011)

Book cover of People Are Not the Same: Leprosy and Identity in Twentieth-Century Mali by Eric Silla

People Are Not the Same by Eric Silla (1998)

Great Books on Science Myth-Busters

Manhattan Projects: The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York by Samuel Zipp (2010)

Book cover of Aids & Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame by Paul Farmer

AIDS & Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame by Paul Farmer (1992)

Sounds of the Past

The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918 by Stephen Kern (2003)

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