Volume 2 of The Printed Past Print and the Persecution of Witchcraft By Ava Hathaway Hacker Johannes Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press in 1450 has often been hailed as the birth of widespread knowledge dissemination. Using movable type, the press was capable of quickly reproducing text, and, in...
Volume 1 of The Printed Past The American West in Print: Paul Frenzeny and Jules Tavernier’s Journey for Harper’s Weekly By Ava Hathaway Hacker In 1873, Harper’s Weekly hired Paul Frenzeny and Jules Tavernier to travel west. The pair were meant to send back sketches illustrating the...
Isabella Smeets sits down with John "JJ" Borja, author of Absinthe, Alcoholism, and the Asylum in France, 1870-1918 [https://yalehistoricalreview.ghost.io/absinthe-alcoholism-and-the-asylum-in-france-1870-1918/]. Isabella Smeets (IS): Firstly, I was just wondering what inspired you to write about Absinthe, Alcoholism, and Asylum in France from 1870-1918? John Borja (JB)...
Volume 22: March 11, 2021 Followers of the Man in the Moon By London Johns When the players in A Midsummer Night’s Dream consider what characters are required to tell the story of “Pyramus and Thisbe”, they decide that since the story takes place under the light of the...
Written by Noah Humphrey Edited by Lucy Gilchrist, Meghanlata Gupta, Eva Magyar, and Gabrielle Sevillano Acknowledgments: With contributions from the Religious Studies Department of Whittier College, the Orthogonian Society, and my Ionian Big Connie Morales." With passion from Davon "Rico" Spillers (Long Live Rico!!!) when you see...
Pacta sunt servanda Volume I: February 22, 2021 Written by Nicholas Rice Edited by Philip Mousavizadeh -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction The framers of the American Constitution vested the “executive Power” (art. II, § 1, cl. 1) of the United States (U.S.) in the “Office” (art. II, § 1, cl. 2) of “a President”...
