This May 1st piece offers a brief look at some online Progressive Era sources relating to child labor and public knowledge of the issue. We published it on History of Knowledge to illustrate a possible blog post format.

In Part II of my survey of the blog ‘Migrant Knowledge,’ I turn to a rich set of posts that treat societal knowledge about migrants from the perspective of two elite groups, so to speak, the state and its agents, on the one hand, and scholars, here primarily historians, on the other hand. Two additional perspectives appear in these accounts: the…[Read more]

An introduction to the blog ‘Migrant Knowledge’ as an editorial project for the readers of ‘History of Knowledge.’ It concentrates on a rich and dynamic group of studies centering around young migrants and the historiographical problem of their agency. It also considers the topic of adult experts on these children.

In the 19th century, a unique combination of scientific, social, political and cultural factors attracted crowds of visitors from all over the world to the Dolomite Mountains. This phenomenon had its epicenter in Fiemme Valley and in the town of Predazzo, where Michele Giacomelli and his family hosted a great number of these travelers in their…[Read more]

Major Research Paper for an MA in History