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Her Majesty’s Rat-Catcher (2013)

The Triumph of Philanthropy (2018)

Lapham's Quarterly Is on Hiatus

The Youngest Daughter of the Sciences

Go in the Devil's Name: When Isobel Gowdie Confessed to Being a Witch

Collection Cost: Eighteenth-century British naturalists in west Africa

On the pope’s waning political influence in Mussolini’s Italy

Misunderstanding Greek and Latin in eighteenth-century Britain

Taking the Plunge: The history and context of Venice’s annual Wedding to the Sea

The Early Days of American English

How to raise a child with taste in eighteenth-century Britain

Rather Ridiculous Than Criminal: How Not to Be Disgusting in Renaissance Italy

The Early History of Counting

A Repugnance to Autobiography

The history and context of Aleksandr Afanasev’s obscene Russian folktales

Feuding twin sisters popularized the American advice column

One can scarcely help clarifying him: on the Brothers Karamazov

The Labor of Polyps and Persons

A surprising dearth of spectacled bears

National Treasure: tea utensils used by early modern practitioners of chanoyu

She Measures the Heavens and Outlines the Earth

The Oldest Maps in the World

The Prehistory of Glass Windows

Flann O’Brien Splits the Atom (1967)

The Birth of Brainstorming

How much is a smidgen?

Pragmatic Writing Advice from the 6th Century

The socialist calculation debate

The life and work of Pieter Bruegel the Elder

All that was mortal: Walking through the Protestant Cemetery in Rome

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