Chlorine, curators, and a choir?
Outreach Day at this year's 3 Society Meeting will include debates, plays, scientific instruments and old songs as a way of taking history of science to new audiences.
More than the Sex of Angels
Science in Byzantium is an unknown continent, writes Alain Touwaide. In this First Person piece, he describes the joys of chasing after old manuscripts and the possibilities for scholars in a field that has been historically neglected.
Bringing History to Science and Science to History
Martin Rudwick won the HSS's 2007 Sarton Medal, the Society's highest award. In this article on his shift from successful paleontologist to successful historian of science, he shows how a historical perspective can help science and how aspects of science can improve history.
PhotoEssay: At the Height of Empire
The British Empire did not just spread out across the world, it also spread up, writes Michael Reidy. The scramble for Africa in the last quarter of the nineteenth century included the climbing of mountains as part of the imperial project.
Archives and Digitization
Clifford Mead at Oregon State University's Special Collections talks about archiving's digital future and the Linus Pauling papers, the core of OSU's history of science and technology collection. Digitizing, says Mead, has a double function; it brings new people to collections and encourages institutions to see their collections in a new and more valuable light.
2007 Meeting Survey
Find out how well members rated the 2007 HSS meeting at Arlington, VA.