Introduction In 1893, the Anatomical Institute of the University of Rostock, by the German Baltic Sea Coast, participated in the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago and was awarded a bronze medal, as well as a certificate for its exhibition of “preparations of the human skeletal elements”.[1] The certificate has recently been rediscovered in the collection…
Beginning around 1870, the protectionist US Empire sparked a global economic nationalist movement that spread like wildfire across the imperial world order. Late-nineteenth-century expansionists within the Republican Party got things started in the 1860s when they enshrined what was then known as the “American System” of protectionism – high protective tariffs coupled with subsidies for…
Global Labour History My book examines labour regimes in the colony of German East Africa (GEA) before World War I.[1] It uses three case studies: the construction of the Central Railway (1905–1916), the Otto Plantation in Kilossa (1907–1916), and the paleontological Tendaguru Expedition in the colony’s southern Lindi district (1909–1911). Combining global labour history with…
Intricately linked to postcolonial realities, this essay delves into the visual-cultural connections between the establishment and challenging of white-centric perspectives, with a special focus on resistance to, as well as (re-)appropriations of, visual coloniality by non-white communities.[1] As I show, these (re-)appropriations were partly ambiguous, and cannot be fully explained by exclusively applying Eurocentric theories…
Goodness gracious, Friends, do I love the science of tree-ring dating! My dissertation research, which I published in 1997 as Time, Trees, and Prehistory, explored the 15-year-long effort, from 1914 to 1929, in which Andrew Ellicott Douglass, an astronomer at the University of Arizona (UA) here in Tucson, along with his rag-tag team of associated…
Today’s post kicks off our Trails series, a companion to our year-end fundraising campaign. We’ll have weekly essays from now until the New Year. Thanks for your support! Skylar Begay (Diné, Mandan and Hidatsa), Director, Tribal Collaboration in Outreach & Advocacy https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/wp-content/uploads/SkylarBegay_YE2025.mp3 New! Listen to the full blog here. Read by Skylar Begay. (November 20,…
Today’s post is the second in our Trails series, a companion to our year-end fundraising campaign. We’ll have weekly essays from now until the New Year. Thanks for your support! John R. Welch, Vice President, Preservation & Collaboration https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/wp-content/uploads/JohnWelchYE2025blog.mp3 Audio Version of “Ndee Trails.” Read by John Welch. (November 25, 2025)—I’ve been hot on the…
Today’s post is the third in our Trails series, a companion to our year-end fundraising campaign. We’ll have weekly essays from now until the New Year. Thanks for your support! Amy Gillaspie, BIA NAGPRA Assistance Program Coordinator https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/wp-content/uploads/AmyAudiofile_enhanced_1.mp3 Audio version of “Finding My Way across Many Trails.” Read by Amy Gillaspie. (December 4, 2025)—When I…
Today’s post is the fourth in our Trails series, a companion to our year-end fundraising campaign. We’ll have weekly essays from now until the New Year. Thanks for your support! Steve Nash, President & CEO https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/wp-content/uploads/SteveNash-YE-BLog-2025.mp3 Audio version of “Routes and Roots.” Written and read by Steve Nash. (December 12, 2025)—In 1946, Bobby Troupe wrote…
In this blog post, Dr Eloise Grey (University of Aberdeen) and Jenny Lelkes-Rarugal (editor of BBIH) discuss how the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) can be used to research and teach the History of Emotions. BBIH and the History of Emotions BBIH is one of the most accurate and comprehensive resources available for…