History

Magazine articles on modern history.

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Chemistry World April 29, 2014 Simon Cotton	The last alchemist in Paris This excellent book will provide an entertaining read to all chemists and is also just the kind of text to place in the hands of school students.
Chemistry World April 23, 2014 Emma Stoye	Lead piping 'unlikely' to have poisoned Romans Some historians put the collapse of Roman civilization down to lead poisoning, thanks to the vast networks of lead pipes used to supply water in cities.
Chemistry World April 3, 2014 Philip Blower	Life atomic: a history of radioisotopes in science and medicine As a career chemist in the field of radioisotopes in medicine, I admit to a faint pride that an academic historian should trouble to chart the origins of my profession in such depth.
Information Today March 27, 2014	ProQuest Finishes NAACP Papers Digitization Project The NAACP Papers Collection has almost 2 million pages of materials from 1909 to 1972.
Fast Company Sarah Kessler	The Internet Archive Wants To Digitize 40,000 VHS And Betamax Tapes The Archive is relying mostly on volunteers like Trevor von Stein, who look at the pile of decades-old tapes and see not just talking heads, but an invaluable portal into the past.
Chemistry World March 21, 2014	Preserving the Mary Rose The Tudor battleship has been stabilized and is now on display in a new museum. Jon Evans explores the chemistry stopping those timbers shivering
Fast Company Chris Gayomali	Happy 25th Birthday, World Wide Web! Our Gift: An Intentionally Brief History Of You We've put together a purposefully brisk and oversimplified history (trust us, you don't want to see the unabridged version) leading up to its now 25 years of existence.
Chemistry World March 3, 2014 Andrea Sella	Dobereiner's lighter Johann Dobereiner was a German chemist (1780 -- 1849). He pioneered periodic ordering of the elements by identifying 'triads', and invented a hydrogen-fueled fire lighter.
Chemistry World February 11, 2014 Patrick Walter	Genome study to pursue Richard III's medical history In what will be the first study of its kind on a historical figure, scientists at the University of Leicester will lead efforts to sequence the genome of Richard III, the last Plantagenet king of England.
HBS Working Knowledge February 6, 2014 Carmen Nobel	The Art of American Advertising Harvard Business School's Baker Library is hosting a historical exhibit that examines the advertising industry in a bygone era.
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