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Histories, Volume 6, Issue 1

2026 March - 18 articles

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Articles (18)

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  • Open Access
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20 Pages

19 February 2026

Central European children’s literature can be read as both archive—recording shifting norms, institutions, and visual regimes—and agent, a medium through which childhood, citizenship, and cultural memory are made legible. This conce...

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  • Open Access
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19 Pages

18 February 2026

This study evaluates whether a multimodal retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipeline originally developed for early modern woodcuts can be effectively transferred to the domain of medieval manuscript illumination. Using a dataset of Wenzelsbibel m...

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  • Open Access
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21 Pages

14 February 2026

The memoirs of Baron Wenceslas Wratislaw are among the most significant Western sources portraying the Ottoman Empire in the late 16th century. Sent on a diplomatic mission and later taken captive, Wratislaw offers a dual image of the Empire: as a po...

  • Article
  • Open Access
531 Views
37 Pages

12 February 2026

On 10 March 1933, an earthquake of roughly 6.4 on the Richter scale (retrospectively estimated) hit the City of Long Beach, California, and the counties surrounding it. Seismically, the quake was of moderate magnitude. However, to this day it remains...

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  • Open Access
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19 Pages

10 February 2026

This essay examines six depictions of the 1898 suicide of New Zealand businessman and politician William Larnach: four historical narratives and two dramatic/fictional depictions. Drawing on the insights of postmodern historiographers like Hayden Whi...

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  • Open Access
556 Views
29 Pages

31 January 2026

This study examines the social, economic and cultural impacts that Latin American women face due to climate-induced displacement, considering these impacts as arenas of conflict and negotiation. Using an intersectional framework, the study analyses h...

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  • Open Access
452 Views
17 Pages

28 January 2026

This paper addresses the knowledge gap on the beginning of the history of contact with extraterrestrial intelligent beings in international astronautics. In the mid-1950s, the world’s space law practitioner, Andrew G. Haley, proposed the concep...

  • Review
  • Open Access
338 Views
18 Pages

24 January 2026

This manuscript examines how distinct epistemic attitudes toward singularity and generality have been articulated in medical writing across different historical contexts, offering a conceptual and meta-historical analysis of two enduring genres in bi...

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  • Open Access
293 Views
15 Pages

During the past decade, chatbots have been integrated into commercial platforms to facilitate second language acquisition (SLA) by providing opportunities for interactive conversations. However, SLA learner progress is limited by chatbots that lack t...

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  • Open Access
508 Views
17 Pages

Medical history of psychopathology is, to some extent, the history of the overlapping traditions of Cartesian-Platonic dualism and physical reductionism looking for a taxonomic middle ground by means of diagnostic constructs. Building on such liminal...

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  • Open Access
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21 Pages

A reading of the American Revolution and the post-Civil War Reconstruction period through the lens of W.E.B. Du Bois’s early writings provides new insights into his theory of racial monopoly capitalism. Many Americans saw the 1776 revolution as...

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  • Open Access
710 Views
29 Pages

Suvarṇabhūmi Convergence Area: Humans, Animals, Artefacts

  • Chingduang Yurayong,
  • Pui Yiu Szeto,
  • Komkiew Pinpimai,
  • Junyoung Park and
  • U-tain Wongsathit

In this study, we investigate the Suvarṇabhūmi area, corresponding to central–southern Mainland Southeast Asia. We test the hypothesis that this region, located to the south of the Himalayan foothills, can be characterised as a convergence zone in wh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
592 Views
26 Pages

An architectural and cultural heritage analysis is performed in this study by systematically examining the social significance of historical hammams in today’s Historical Peninsula of Istanbul, which symbolize washing–cleansing–hygi...

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  • Open Access
510 Views
31 Pages

26 December 2025

This article presents some information about the participation of nearly one hundred inhabitants of Castelló d’Empúries (currently located in the Alt Empordà region, province of Girona, in the northeastern corner of the Ibe...

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  • Open Access
711 Views
15 Pages

24 December 2025

The idea of progress constitutes a foundational, self-justifying myth of modernity. This paper explores the conservative critique of this myth, tracing its intellectual history and diagnosing its contemporary consequences. It argues that the progress...

  • Article
  • Open Access
619 Views
18 Pages

24 December 2025

This article focuses on ponds and reservoirs (PRs) in Sanuki, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. Sanuki is a region in the Seto Inland Sea with low annual rainfall. In 1999, there were 14,619 PRs in the 1877 km2 area. Mannō-ike, the largest PR, is said t...

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  • Open Access
689 Views
19 Pages

23 December 2025

John Adams asserted that the historical summation of republican political thought can be found in one writer: Polybius of Megalopolis. More clearly than any other, Polybius articulated those qualities that define good statesmen and citizens and make...

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