A few different things: current events and processes, thoughts on past happenings, book reviews, and eventually, interviews and other content. It offers thoughts and explanations of past happenings (like migration in prehistory, the invention of
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If you want to know where you’re going, it helps to know where you’ve been. We’ll take you there, with the history and archival photos that bring needed perspective to our current political moment...
The Roots of Progress is a personal project of Jason Crawford—an intellectual project, which may take many years, to understand the nature and cause of human progress.
Think of this less as a newsletter, and more of a personal research...
Welcome to Age of Invention by me, Dr Anton Howes.
I’m a historian of innovation. I write mostly about the causes of Britain’s Industrial Revolution, focusing on the lives of the individual innovators who made it happen. I’m interested in every...
Interesting stuff doesn’t necessarily have to go viral. In fact, it can actually be a little boring or dull on its face. Just because it’s not Upworthy doesn’t mean it’s not worthy. Maybe it’s simply not being consumed the right way. There’s still...
The Public Domain Review is an online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas.