The Imperial Origins of Big Data
August 28, 2024
Asheesh Kapur Siddique— We live in a moment of massive transformation in the nature of information. In 2020, according to one report, users of the Internet created 64.2 zetabytes of… READ MORE
Category: Social Science
Daily Life in Ancient Babylonia: Insights from the Temple of Ishtar
August 6, 2024
Yuval Levavi— The Yale Babylonian Collection houses tens of thousands of cuneiform-inscribed artifacts of various sizes, genres, and lengths. It is a treasure trove of the earliest writing cultures, representing… READ MORE
The Caliphate or Supreme Imamate with Simon A. Wood
July 16, 2024
The Caliphate or Supreme Imamate is Muhammad Rashid Rida’s best-known work, which examines the compatibility of Islamic political and legal tradition with modern thought. Simon A. Wood has made The Caliphate or… READ MORE
The Archive’s Main Entrance
June 27, 2024
Alan Mikhail— Between the street and the building was a large black wrought-iron fence. On the inside of this one of Egypt’s millions of border markers, two paths led into… READ MORE
Black in New York City: The Story of Billy Waters
June 25, 2024
Mary L. Shannon— How do you tell the story of unrecorded Black lives in early New York City? This was the problem confronting me when I tried to uncover the… READ MORE
Our Palestine Question: A Conversation with Geoffrey Levin
June 11, 2024
Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978 is a new history of the American Jewish relationship with Israel focused on its most urgent and sensitive issue: the question… READ MORE
Loneliness and Screens: Causes and Consequences
June 7, 2024
Jeffrey A. Hall and Andy J. Merolla— Loneliness is complex. You keenly feel its touch when missing someone close to you, but it can also linger dully in the background… READ MORE
America’s Reckoning with Gaza at Home and the Great Rupture in International Relations
June 4, 2024
Fawaz A. Gerges— In May 1963, in Birmingham, Alabama, more than a thousand school students participated in the Children’s March intended to force the city to reckon with the demands… READ MORE
How U.S. Policy in Yemen Went Tragically Wrong
May 13, 2024
Alexandra Stark— On October 8, 2016, an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition struck a crowded funeral hall in Sanaa, Yemen, killing at least 140 people and wounding an additional 600,… READ MORE
Where Life Is, Hope Can Survive
May 9, 2024
It needs to be said that, unlike some more recent cultures, the joy-loving and disarmingly honest ancient Greeks did not believe that suffering ennobled, educated, or improved the character of… READ MORE
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