Archive for: Curious Sources

The Conspiracy Theorists Have Gone to the Dogs

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Chris Del Santo's contribution to our "Curious Sources" series offers insight into the workings of a nineteenth-century technological curiosity: the dog mill.

Dakota Silver Indian Peace Medals

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Continuing our "Curious Sources" series, John R. Legg discusses the diplomatic and cultural significance of peace medals.

Samuel Mather and “An Attempt to Shew that America Must Be Known to the Ancients”

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David Malcolm discusses an unusual source encountered while writing his thesis.

The Archival . . . Grain?

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The practice of "reading against the grain" sometimes has more than one meaning, as Zoe Zimmermann discusses in this installment of our "Curious Sources" series.

Curious Sources: Editor’s Introduction

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Elena Telles Ryan introduces our new "Curious Sources" series featuring historians' reflections on strange, challenging, or otherwise unusual archival sources.