Volume 26: April 22, 2021 Percy Shelley and The Tempest By London Johns According to a dialogue published in New Monthly Magazine in 1830, Lord Byron and Percy Shelley were walking together through the forest when Byron mentioned that he had been reading Hamlet, and he was disappointed by what...
Isabella Smeets talks with Christina Figlus about her thesis, "Our emperor and empresse." [https://www.yalehistoricalreview.org/our-emperor-and-empresse-how-queen-elizabeth-is-complex-gender-identity-allowed-her-to-appropriate-the-image-of-the-christian-divine/] Isabella Smeets (IS): First, I was wondering what inspired you to write about Elizabeth I? Did you always have an interest in Elizabeth I or English history in general? Were...
Volume 25: April 5, 2021 Reading Shakespeare’s Plays in the Old West By London Johns In 1879, Colonel William G. Boyle, the owner of most of the land in a small mining town in New Mexico named Ralston City, was determined to heal the town’s reputation. Since 1870,...
Pacta sunt servanda Volume II: April 1, 2021 Written by Nicholas Rice The US signs the UN Charter. Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr., Secretary of State, Chairman of the delegation from the United States, signing the UN Charter at a ceremony held at the Veterans' War Memorial Building on 26...
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...
