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Retelling the Fall of Tenochtitlan

Felipe Ledesma-Núñez discusses the fall of the Aztec Empire, based on Nahua accounts of the epidemics brought by Spanish invaders

Remaking Marrakesh

Abbey Stockstill Probes the Hidden History of Urban Development

The Hidden Fields of Peru

Ari Caramanica searches for agricultural traces in the Pampa de Mocan

The Gardens Online

Abbey Stockstill adds to web-based garden research tool

Going Out into the Desert

John Zaleski investigates the Syriac ascetic tradition

Early Modern Armageddon

W. Sasson Chahanovich explains how the conquest of Constantinople kickstarted Ottoman enthusiasm for the end-times

Of Landscape and Lawsuits

Philip Gant studies legal implications of the Buddhist temple as critical infrastructure

Forced Labor in the Americas

James Almeida studies enslavement, racial ideology, and labor history in the Andes and at Dumbarton Oaks

Eastern Knowledge, Latin Letters

John Mulhall finds medieval translators who sought to remedy Latin deficiency with Greek and Arabic texts

Feeling Texts in Place

Sarah F. Porter asks how Antioch’s deathscapes felt