Benjamin Breen
Benjamin Breen is a PhD candidate at the University of Texas at Austin. He is executive editor of The Appendix, a journal of experimental and narrative history, and is writing a book about the history of drugs in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Wikimedia Commons/Benjamin Breen Victorian Trolling: How Con Artists Spammed in a Time Before Email
The main difference between 21st-century scams and those of centuries past is one of delivery method.
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'Alien Jesus': The Pre-Modern History of Outer Space
A 16th-century monk saw a universe full of Christs.
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Library of Congress From the Lab to the Street: How 3 Illegal Drugs Came to Be
There's a huge gap, temporally and culturally, between the inventors of illicit drugs—usually rather austere, cerebral, and disciplined—and their consumers.
