The Deep History of Tattoo Removal (2013)

Death by Chamomile? (2013)

Let's Restore Valentine's Day to the Wolves (2014)

The Politics of the Turtle Feast (2013)

Nazis in the Amazon Revisited: The Power of Rumor and Gossip (2013)

Isaac Asimovs predictions of life in 2014 revisited

A Pirate Surgeon in Panama (2014)

Amazonia, 1952: On finding objects recovered from a Pan Am plane crash (2012)

The Key of Hell: An Enlightenment Sorcery Manual (2014)

Bespelled in the Archives (2013)

Alfred Paraf, the oleomargarine swindler (2014)

Friendly Robots of the Soviet Union (2014)

Searching for Jagari: The “Mick Jagger of Zambia” (2014)

Anthropology, Footnoted: Jared Diamond’s “The World Until Yesterday” (2013)

From Folklore to Exotica: Yma Sumac and the Performance of Inca Identity (2013)

"A Toast to Your Health": Getting Drunk in Colonial America (2013)

Solitude and Sandaya: The History of Pianos in Burma (2013)

We're a Zambian Band: tracking down a forgotten rock star in Zambia's Copperbelt

Prison Palimpsest: A Former Tour Guide Looks Back at Eastern State Pen (2014)

The Woman in Green: A Chinese Ghost Tale from Mao to Ming, 1981-1381 (2013)

Nazi Monks Against the Panama Canal (2012)

Made in Taiwan?: An Eighteenth-Century Frenchman’s Fictional Formosa (2013)

The bizarre, Romantic, not-quite-scientific dinosaurs of B. W. Hawkins

Getting Drunk in Colonial America (2013)

The Double World: One Man’s Search for Meaning in the Seattle Public Library

Mug Shots: A Small Town Noir

How Victorian London Almost Ended Up with a Roman Sewer

The Man Who Was Buried Twice

The Crime on Prudan Street

The Hawaiian Invasion

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