The tension between science and belief systems has surfaced many times before during public health crises. Archival material from these periods illuminate much of the push for science to legitimately influence policy and legislature.
The unexpected acceleration to virtual learning creates a new urgency to ensure that primary source materials can be accessed remotely for teaching, learning and research.
Watch the recording of panel session ‘Stories in the Archives, Drawn from Around the World’ from the RAI2020 Conference Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present, and Future Conference.
The COVID-19 pandemic has raised issues that transcend medicine and health, illuminating a long history of racial fears and anxieties that have historically been a common framework around global viruses.
When Arthur Bernard Deacon began his research of a South Pacific civilization in 1927, he couldnt have predicted the value his field sketches would have on the legacy of the people of Vanuatu or on the field of anthropology itself.
This webcast features Dr. Jacob Steere-Williams, Associate Professor at the College of Charleston, as he addresses parallels between past pandemics and the current outbreak.
“This is particularly pertinent for researchers working on a new project or working with an archive collection for the first time.” A review on Doing History in Public, a collective project by historians for the public, by Mobeen Hussain, co-Editor in Chief and PhD Candidate, World History at Cambridge.
Not-for-profit technology provider for research and education,, and global publisher,, are poised to digitise a one-million-page collection on the history of science.
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