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Weather or Not: First Crusader Conceptions of Meteorology and the Miraculous
(2021-05-14)
Recent historians of the First Crusade have written that appearances in the sky were important to crusaders because they were signs of divine approval, served a narrative function, and indicated God's plan of an upcoming ...
Ordering Wonder: Collections, Curators, and Showmen in Antebellum America
(2023-12-15)
This dissertation explores the development and execution of five museum collections established between the 1793 opening of Charles Willson Peale’s museum in Philadelphia and the opening of the Smithsonian Institution as ...
Identifying Experiential Practices and Science in Mid-Eighteenth-Century British Cookbooks with Open-Access Sourcing
(2021-12-06)
This dissertation serves as a proof of concept to demonstrate how combining SEO-optimized and open access digitized primary sources, popular historical accounts and traditional historiographical methods may open areas of ...
Surfacing Oil: The Oil Industry and Environmental Knowledge in the 20th Century United States
(2023-08-04)
In the 20th century United States, the oil industry expanded internationally, extracting in new environments with new technologies. Throughout this period, contemporary environmental knowledge shaped the oil industry’s ...