Introduction Never before in human history has a small minority wielded this degree of control over the lives of the majority ...

Technologies of the court, 1450-1600 -- Techniques of commerce, 1588-1740 -- Geographies of industry, 1740-1851 -- Instruments of empire, 1840-1914 -- Science and systems, 1870-1930 -- Materials of ...

In Technology and the Environment in History, the authors discuss the important topics, historical processes, and scholarly concerns that have emerged from recent work in thinking about envirotech.

The technology’s ability to read and summarize text is already making it a useful tool for scholarship. How will it change the stories we tell about the past? Credit...Photo illustration by enigmatriz ...

In the sweltering summer of AD18, a desperate chant echoed across China’s sun-scorched plains: “Heaven has gone blind!” Thousands of starving farmers, their faces smeared with ox blood, marched toward ...

As the 250th anniversary approaches, museums and historical tours around Massachusetts have evolved to incorporate modern ...

The aphorism that “you can’t please all of the people all of the time” expresses a truism that echoes through the ages. Indeed, it is especially apt for today’s tech titans. Consider: most people ...

The Computer History Museum in California is more than a walk through the past; it is a reflection of how rapidly technology continues to shape everyday life. Located in the Silicon Valley hub of ...

The test subject that produced the first 3D magnetic resonance image was quiet and a bit hairy. Tough on the outside, the patient was a big softie at heart. It was also not human. Nobel Prize-winning ...