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Digital Highlights: “The Nightless City”

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Colored plate from De Becker's "The Nightless City."

In 1899, Joseph Ernest De Becker published an expose of the geisha quarter of the Japanese capital of Tokyo — then named Yedo — called the yoshiwara. De Becker ended up with a tome of over 500 pages, detailing the history, architecture, and customs of the quarter and including several beautiful color prints and many illustrations in black and white. Continue reading

Digital Highlights: Eugenic Tracts

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Title page of "The Problem of Race-Regeneration."

In the April 1912 edition of Eugenics Review, an E. Schuster wrote about a new series of pamphlets, “New Tracts for the Times”: “We welcome the publication of this series, aiming as it does at awakening ‘an enlightened social conscience’…” (94) Continue reading

Perseus Project Founder Speaks on Roles for Libraries

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On January 17, 2012, Gregory Crane (Harvard BA 79, Phd 85), Professor and Chair of the Department of Classics, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science and Winnick Family Chair of Technology and Entrepreneurship, Tufts University, and Editor in Chief of the Perseus Project, spoke on “Libraries, Humanists, and Intellectual Life in the 21st Century” at Harvard University to a mixed group of librarians, technologists and faculty. He described a number of opportunities for libraries in a world of “ubiquitous information,” where the number of books a library owns is no longer the only important metric – and may not be that important at all. Continue reading

Digital Highlights: Bathing Medicine

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Image of a hypocasium from a Roman bath at Chester.

The history of ‘alternative medicine’ does not begin in the twentieth century. The arguments between allopaths and homeopaths formed part of mainstream medical dialogue in the nineteenth century and alternatives to ‘heroic’ medicine or mainstream medical treatment have always enjoyed a greater or lesser degree of popularity. Today, therapies like acupuncture and medical massage are receiving critical attention; in the nineteenth century in Britain, the Turkish bath enjoyed a similar vogue. Continue reading