The railways of Manchuria offer an intriguing vantage point for an international history of northeast Asia. Before the completion of the Trans-Siberian railway in 1916, the only rail route from the Imperial Russian capital of St. Petersburg to the Pacific port of Vladivostok transited Manchuria.
Archive – November 2009
This intimate portrayal of the friendship between two icons of twentieth-century poetry, Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky, highlights the parallel lives of the poets as exiles living in America and Nobel Prize laureates in literature.
Angela N.H. Creager and co-author Gregory J. Morgan were awarded the Derek Price/Rod Webster Prize for 2009 by the officers and members of the History of Science Society in recognition of the outstanding article published in Isis: “After the Double Helix: Rosalind Franklin’s Research on Tobacco Mosaic Virus.”