Historical analysis of musical instruments encompasses a multidisciplinary approach integrating art history, materials science and conservation technology. Researchers have employed both invasive and ...

Textile analysis can aid everyone from forensic anthropologists searching for clues to museum conservators hoping to identify and preserve an antique dress. Experts first need to place an item ...

Team-taught by the faculty of the Department of History, this course introduces students to the various theories and methods that underlie historical scholarship, and to the value of historical ...

The Scottish poet, novelist, and historian Andrew Lang once quipped that politicians use statistics the way a drunkard uses a lamppost: “for support rather than illumination.” Indeed, the same line ...

As a method of the systematic conservation of historical, cultural, and natural landscape resources, heritage corridor integrates contexts of humanism and nature and provides the public with ...

Earth’s Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for scientists. During earlier and later time periods, tectonic plates kept a steady ...