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Dr. Maurits van den Boogert, Acquisitions Editor of Middle East and Islamic Studies at Brill, Elena Müller, Program Director for Biblical, Jewish, and Theological Studies at Mohr Siebeck, and Dr. Sophie Wagenhofer, Program Director of History & Library and Information Science at De Gruyter, join Avi Staiman for an insightful and practical discussion on strategic steps you can take to identify the best publisher or press for your research. 

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Young urban professional (yuppies for short) emerged as an archetype close to the heart of transformations taking place in American society during the 1970s and 1980s. These highly educated individuals were products and architects of a new American economy geared toward financial services and willing cannibalize much of the rest of the economy for short-term profit.

The incredible story of Pinchas Gutter, who survived the Warsaw Ghetto and multiple concentration camps.  Please join the webinar with Mr. Gutter on April 18, 2023, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. (ET)

Sponsored by the Touro University Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust.

Lançamento do Novo Podcast 'Tecnografias'

Since World War II the old industrial cities of the northeast and Midwest USA have repeatedly sought to end periods of decline by seeking to renew their downtowns. Convention centers, sports stadiums, hospitals, and tourist-oriented investment have all been deployed in an effort to restore a tax base and reinvigorate urban areas.

:  Hilton Hotels started in Texas and swelled into a globe-straddling hospitality behemoth. Along the way company founder Conrad Hilton kept ideas about affordable luxury at the center of his business model.

America at the dawn of the twentieth century ran on anthracite coal.

Railroads unite. Across time and space the railroad has tied together diverse peoples and places with literal and figurative bonds.

Kevin Bunch is a writer and communications specialist for the International Joint Commission and an independent researcher of video game history, centered his research at Hagley on RCA in the 1970s. In 1977 RCA released their own home video game console, the RCA Studio II. The device, which played games in black and white, had five built-in games and 11 cartridges released over the course of it’s short life- it was discontinued in 1978.

Historians of technology once famously asked, “does technology drive history?” Their answer was, “it depends.” The phenomena of history do not float atop of the changes within material practices and technology, but neither do they stand apart from them; the two are intimately intwined in the contingent, in