A Parasitology of Sound

Cambodian Dancers, Auguste Rodin, and the Imperial Imagination

Friendly Robots of the Soviet Union

Does Outer Space Have a History?

Tipu’s Tiger – arguably the most infamous automaton of the 18th century

The Emperor's Turkey (2013)

Atomic Anxiety and the Tooth Fairy: Citizen Science in the Midcentury Midwest

Amazons, Pirates, and Turtles on the Island of California

Perchance to Dream: Science and the Future

Trade Tales and Tiny Trails: Glass Beads in the Kalahari Desert

An Art of Air and Fire: Brazil’s Renegade Balloonists

Magic Isn't Rocket Science (2013)

Don't Cry for Me, Elanthia: An Archaeology of Gemstone III

The Beard That Wasn't: Abe Lincoln's Whiskers

“Why Does S Look Like F?”: A Guide to Reading Very Old Books (2013)

The Most Soviet Park in Russia

Put a Propeller on It: The Golden Age of Tinkering

Photographing the Guillotine

The Fourth Skull: A Tale of Authenticity and Fraud (2013)

The Peripatetic Life of Isabella Bird

Terrestriality

Inside the Cosmonaut Survival Kit (2013)

Searching for Jagari

A Short History of the Executioner

Yuri Gagarin Sings

The Passing of the Indians Behind Glass

Mapping Babel: A Sixteenth-Century Indigenous Map from Mexico (2013)

“Nancy Grows Up,” the Media Age, and the Historian’s Craft

Proto-Spam: Spanish Prisoners and Confidence Games (2013)

Behind the Rocket Cat: Animals in Warfare from Hannibal to World War One

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