Issues: Fall 2023
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Family Dinner for Rafa and Clair at Merida Mexican Restaurant, Houston, TX
“I hope to create enough interest in the photograph to spark the viewer’s own imagination about what’s happening.”
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The Art of Mapping History
ClioVis is reshaping — literally — how relationships between historical events are visualized.
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Ask An Aqueduct
You’ve seen them on TV and in movies, in History Channel specials and textbooks on antiquity, maybe even on a tour of the Italian countryside. But to archaeologist Rabun Taylor,…
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Pictures Snapping into Place
Steven Hoelscher brings a geographer’s critical eye to the study of photography and history.
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How Maps Can Kill: Lessons in Critical Cartography
Steven Seegel exposes the distortions, biases, and hidden agendas behind the seemingly objective art of cartography.
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The Clothes Make the Manuscript
In “Fashioning Spanish Cinema: Costume, Identity, and Stardom,” Jorge Pérez decodes Chanel suits and starched shorts in Spanish cinema.
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Art, Science, and the Wide World of Infowhelm
Overwhelmed by information about climate change? Heather Houser has a word for a that, and a possible solution: Art.
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These Are Not Just Any Greeting Cards
Craig Campbell’s “Greeting Cards for the Anthropocene” don’t look anything like Hallmark.
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Gamifying Japanese History and Literature with JapanLab
From video games to virtual reality, JapanLab is bringing history into the 21st century and beyond.
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Finding Humility Along the Supply Chain
Sharmila Rudrappa brings students from Texas to Sweden to India to explore the realities behind “ethical fashion.”
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Blood in the Water: A Graphic Story
A graphic story by American Studies Ph.D. student and cartoonist Coyote Shook that explores the shark-related research of American Studies professor Janet Davis, one of Shook’s advisors, in the context…
