MIT historian's book honored
Harriet Ritvo’s "The Animal Estate" named to list of 100 most significant publications by Harvard University Press
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Race and class
MIT historian Craig Wilder documents the manifold links between universities and the slave economy in colonial America.
Mappers, modelers and an anthropologist
HASTS doctoral student Tom Schilling is conducting an anthropological study of geology, forestry and First Nations-led mapping and modeling in rural British Columbia.
3 Questions: Christopher Capozzola on the history of chemical-weapons bans
MIT historian discusses the longstanding ‘taboo’ against chemical weapons, and international attempts to eliminate them.
Path-breaking historian Pauline Maier dies at age 75
MIT professor’s work illuminated the richness and complexity of Revolutionary-era America and the origins of democracy in the U.S.
The long history of ‘Eurasian’ identity
MIT historian’s new book studies cross-cultural Asian-American families since the 19th century.
3Q: Jeffrey Ravel on the French past and our future
With MIT hosting a global French history conference, a look at the international growth of — and changes in — the field.
Faculty describe experiments with digital learning on MacVicar Day
Participants discuss how they are 'reimagining the MIT classroom.'
Preserving culture
MIT historian Lerna Ekmekcioglu explores how women preserve Armenian cultural identity.
AIAA honors David Mindell for ‘Digital Apollo’
MIT professor’s book earns Gardner-Lasser Aerospace History Literature Award.
Historian/physicist David Kaiser wins Physics World’s 'Book of the Year Award'
Kaiser is the head of MIT's Program in Science, Technology, and Society, and a senior lecturer in the Department of Physics.
Q&A: Associate Provost Philip Khoury on foreign policy in the Middle East
The Ford International Professor of History also talks about how an engineering school benefits the humanities and social science community.
Historian Craig Wilder featured in new Ken Burns film
The head of the MIT History section served as a consultant on the director's latest documentary, “The Central Park Five.”
3 Questions: David Kaiser on Thomas Kuhn’s paradigm shift
Scholars mark 50th anniversary of 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.'