Passage du témoin

By the middle of the nineteenth century, the North-West Passage, a trade route from the Atlantic to the Pacific, had been sought for centuries without success. The Franklin expedit...

Imaginez-vous à Athènes, vers 414 avant J.-C. Dans le théâtre de Dionysos sous l’Acropole. Gradins en bois, sol de terre battue, et pour seul décor un bâtiment rudimentaire, doté d...

Le 8 décembre 1936, l’avion de l’ambassade française est abattu dans le ciel de Madrid. A son bord, le grand reporter Louis Delaprée et le chef de la délégation du Comité internati...

With California's passage of the Save Our State Initiative in 1994, fear of aliens has once again appeared in U.S. legislative history. Since 1790, congressional legislation on fed...

This chapter examines how women’s and men’s attachments with the two major political parties in the United States have evolved since the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. The ch...

Abstract All Species of Knowledge examines the discoveries and failures of the Russian exploratory vessel Rurik as it searched for the world’s most elusive geogra...

This chapter examines the employment of Chinese laborers in the construction of railroads, primarily to cut trees in order to clear the roads, make ties, and provide fuel for the t...

Raymond Bellour explains his concept of “the between-images,” and comments on the status of the arrested image in relation to the time-image, suggesting how video was an instrument...