In this workshop, four historians will present their views on how (if at all) guns have been central to the making of the modern world, drawing on evidence from diverse geographies. How did they matter as weapons? commodities? industrial products? political artifacts? We will also reflect on the...

Hagia Sophia's reverberant acoustics were integral to the experience of services in the Great Church.  Based on impulse response measurements that we obtained in two campaigns in December, 2014 and one in January, 2015, we explore the character of this building's soundfield and fine-tune the...

Join us for a book launch of Writing America by Shelley Fisher Fishkin

Copies of Writing America will be available for purchase and signed by Shelley Fisher Fishkin after the program.

“Writing America is a triumph of scholarship and passion, a...