A difference maker
‘150 years of MIT’ is a series that looks at specific people and moments from MIT’s 150-year history and explains their lasting effect on the Institute, the nation and the world. See the full...
View ArticleFirst Person Victim
“This is going to be a little bit untraditional,” said Henrik Schønau Fog, a PhD fellow at Denmark’s Aalborg University who studies how video games portray war, as he introduced his team’s provocative...
View ArticleMIT and the Civil War
On April 10, 1861, the Massachusetts legislature authorized a charter officially creating the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Two days later, Confederate forces besieged Fort Sumter in South...
View ArticleThe Civil War’s iron age
Almost exactly 150 years ago, two warships fought the battle of the future. The duel was the Battle of Hampton Roads, just off the coast of Virginia, during the U.S. Civil War. The ships were the...
View Article3 Questions: Hanna Rose Shell on the hidden history of camouflage
Soldiers have been trying to disguise themselves since at least the Trojan War. But as MIT historian of technology Hanna Rose Shell has detailed in her research, no concerted effort to develop...
View ArticleHow civil wars evolve
When the Taliban took control of Kabul, Afghanistan, in late 1996, they soon launched a sustained military offensive to the north, an area they did not control. The following May, however, Abdul Malik...
View ArticleRegina Bateson: Crime, punishment and politics
Regina Bateson’s career with the Foreign Service of the U.S. State Department began in terrifying fashion: In her early days processing visa applications and assisting American crime victims, she could...
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