In her groundbreaking trilogy, “Women Scientists in America,” she told the stories of numerous accomplished but largely invisible women.

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Science history isn’t a “triumphant march”—it’s sloppy, messy, and full of stops and starts. Meet the people who tell that story.

This distinction is revelatory of historical science. I argue that at least sometimes which strategy is appropriate is not a pragmatic issue, but turns on the nature of the target. Moreover, the ...

"Victorian history, science fiction, modern values, modern culture references, mix it all up and then add in a whole dose of ...

The history of science and technology links many disciplines and cultures: scientific, technological, humanistic and social. Smith’s program in the history of science and technology is designed to ...

Two spacecraft successfully traverse the asteroid belt, fly close to Jupiter and are ejected by its gravity into interstellar ...

The Virginia Museum of History of Culture wants you to know that Colonel William Tavington wasn’t so bad after all. “He’s based on a real historical person called Banastre Tarleton,” says ...

Historical science is important for countering distortion and falsification attempts,Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko said during a visit to the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus ...

The Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction turns a century of neologisms (and neosemes!) into a redefintion of the genre.