Society for the History of Discoveries
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Society for the History of Discoveries
Est. 1960
Teaching, research, & publishing history of geographical exploration
https://linktr.ee/shdmediaoutreach
Est. 1960
Teaching, research, & publishing history of geographical exploration
https://linktr.ee/shdmediaoutreach
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CALL FOR PAPERS - SHD interdisciplinary conference to examine the history and ongoing process of island exploration. Scholars from history, geography, cartography, maritime studies, & related fields may submit proposals interrogating how island encounters relate to exploration, exchange, & discovery
Click our linktree to view abstract submission guidelines. Contact mylynka.cardona@etamu.edu with any questions!
Slide 1 – IPY-1 North polar chart. Scottish Geographical Magazine, Volume I, No. 12, 1885
Slide 2 - International Polar Station, Godthaab (Nukk), Greenland
Slide 3 – Dutch ship Varna beset by ice
Photos from www.pmel.noaa.gov/arctic-zone/...
Slide 2 - International Polar Station, Godthaab (Nukk), Greenland
Slide 3 – Dutch ship Varna beset by ice
Photos from www.pmel.noaa.gov/arctic-zone/...
FEATURE FRIDAY - The First International Polar Year (1882-1883) was a concentrated global effort to advance scientific research in the Arctic. 12 countries built 14 research bases to simultaneously gather pertinent polar data. This map indicates the placement of each research station.
January 30, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Slide 1 – IPY-1 North polar chart. Scottish Geographical Magazine, Volume I, No. 12, 1885
Slide 2 - International Polar Station, Godthaab (Nukk), Greenland
Slide 3 – Dutch ship Varna beset by ice
Photos from www.pmel.noaa.gov/arctic-zone/...
Slide 2 - International Polar Station, Godthaab (Nukk), Greenland
Slide 3 – Dutch ship Varna beset by ice
Photos from www.pmel.noaa.gov/arctic-zone/...
FEATURE FRIDAY - The First International Polar Year (1882-1883) was a concentrated global effort to advance scientific research in the Arctic. 12 countries built 14 research bases to simultaneously gather pertinent polar data. This map indicates the placement of each research station.
January 30, 2026 at 11:58 PM
FEATURE FRIDAY - The First International Polar Year (1882-1883) was a concentrated global effort to advance scientific research in the Arctic. 12 countries built 14 research bases to simultaneously gather pertinent polar data. This map indicates the placement of each research station.
Information from www.umasspress.com/978162534913...
Creating New England, Defending the Northeast asserts that Algonquian knowledge of the landscape represented a powerful & persistent alternative to English surveying & mapmaking in the Northeast. This story complicates stories of conquest, highlighting often-overlooked Indigenous spatial knowledge.
January 28, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Information from www.umasspress.com/978162534913...
Creating New England, Defending the Northeast asserts that Algonquian knowledge of the landscape represented a powerful & persistent alternative to English surveying & mapmaking in the Northeast. This story complicates stories of conquest, highlighting often-overlooked Indigenous spatial knowledge.
January 28, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Creating New England, Defending the Northeast asserts that Algonquian knowledge of the landscape represented a powerful & persistent alternative to English surveying & mapmaking in the Northeast. This story complicates stories of conquest, highlighting often-overlooked Indigenous spatial knowledge.
The newspaper, published over the winter of 1881-1882, has been transcribed in detail by expert Elrica Ludwig and her associate Madeline Newbery and is available to view through the Elisha Kent Kane Historical Society at kanehs.org/adolphus-w-g...
Slide 1 - 1902 Map of the North Pole Region by The Century Company, Private Collection
Slide 2 – Vol. 1 of The Arctic Moon, photo from the National Museum of American History
Slide 3 – Proteus ship at Quqertarsuaq Harbor, Godhaven, Greenland, by George W. Rice - Library of Congress, Public Domain
Slide 2 – Vol. 1 of The Arctic Moon, photo from the National Museum of American History
Slide 3 – Proteus ship at Quqertarsuaq Harbor, Godhaven, Greenland, by George W. Rice - Library of Congress, Public Domain
During the ill-fated Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881-1884), Lieutenant Lockwood, Sergeant Rice, and Private Henry wrote The Arctic Moon newspaper. They provided info about events, meetings, jokes, & other ephemera to keep the crew occupied during periods of inactivity.
January 23, 2026 at 11:59 PM
The newspaper, published over the winter of 1881-1882, has been transcribed in detail by expert Elrica Ludwig and her associate Madeline Newbery and is available to view through the Elisha Kent Kane Historical Society at kanehs.org/adolphus-w-g...
Slide 1 - 1902 Map of the North Pole Region by The Century Company, Private Collection
Slide 2 – Vol. 1 of The Arctic Moon, photo from the National Museum of American History
Slide 3 – Proteus ship at Quqertarsuaq Harbor, Godhaven, Greenland, by George W. Rice - Library of Congress, Public Domain
Slide 2 – Vol. 1 of The Arctic Moon, photo from the National Museum of American History
Slide 3 – Proteus ship at Quqertarsuaq Harbor, Godhaven, Greenland, by George W. Rice - Library of Congress, Public Domain
During the ill-fated Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881-1884), Lieutenant Lockwood, Sergeant Rice, and Private Henry wrote The Arctic Moon newspaper. They provided info about events, meetings, jokes, & other ephemera to keep the crew occupied during periods of inactivity.
January 23, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Slide 1 - 1902 Map of the North Pole Region by The Century Company, Private Collection
Slide 2 – Vol. 1 of The Arctic Moon, photo from the National Museum of American History
Slide 3 – Proteus ship at Quqertarsuaq Harbor, Godhaven, Greenland, by George W. Rice - Library of Congress, Public Domain
Slide 2 – Vol. 1 of The Arctic Moon, photo from the National Museum of American History
Slide 3 – Proteus ship at Quqertarsuaq Harbor, Godhaven, Greenland, by George W. Rice - Library of Congress, Public Domain
During the ill-fated Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881-1884), Lieutenant Lockwood, Sergeant Rice, and Private Henry wrote The Arctic Moon newspaper. They provided info about events, meetings, jokes, & other ephemera to keep the crew occupied during periods of inactivity.
January 23, 2026 at 11:58 PM
During the ill-fated Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881-1884), Lieutenant Lockwood, Sergeant Rice, and Private Henry wrote The Arctic Moon newspaper. They provided info about events, meetings, jokes, & other ephemera to keep the crew occupied during periods of inactivity.
Click our linktree to view abstract submission guidelines. Contact mylynka.cardona@etamu.edu with any questions!
CALL FOR PAPERS - SHD interdisciplinary conference to examine the history and ongoing process of island exploration. Scholars from history, geography, cartography, maritime studies, & related fields may submit proposals interrogating how island encounters relate to exploration, exchange, & discovery
January 22, 2026 at 10:25 PM
Click our linktree to view abstract submission guidelines. Contact mylynka.cardona@etamu.edu with any questions!
CALL FOR PAPERS - SHD interdisciplinary conference to examine the history and ongoing process of island exploration. Scholars from history, geography, cartography, maritime studies, & related fields may submit proposals interrogating how island encounters relate to exploration, exchange, & discovery
January 22, 2026 at 10:24 PM
CALL FOR PAPERS - SHD interdisciplinary conference to examine the history and ongoing process of island exploration. Scholars from history, geography, cartography, maritime studies, & related fields may submit proposals interrogating how island encounters relate to exploration, exchange, & discovery
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Cortney Berg received a BFA in studio arts and a BA in art history from California State University at Chico in 2014, an MA in art history from Arizona State University in 2020, and is pursuing a PhD in art history at the City University of New York.
January 17, 2026 at 10:19 PM
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Cortney Berg received a BFA in studio arts and a BA in art history from California State University at Chico in 2014, an MA in art history from Arizona State University in 2020, and is pursuing a PhD in art history at the City University of New York.
January 17, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Cortney Berg received a BFA in studio arts and a BA in art history from California State University at Chico in 2014, an MA in art history from Arizona State University in 2020, and is pursuing a PhD in art history at the City University of New York.
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Wes Brown has had a distinguished career in investment banking, specializing in merger transactions and debt and equity financing for financial businesses. Wes taught at the Graduate School of Banking, University of Colorado, for many years. He holds a MBA with honors from the University of Chicago.
January 14, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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Wes Brown has had a distinguished career in investment banking, specializing in merger transactions and debt and equity financing for financial businesses. Wes taught at the Graduate School of Banking, University of Colorado, for many years. He holds a MBA with honors from the University of Chicago.
January 14, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Wes Brown has had a distinguished career in investment banking, specializing in merger transactions and debt and equity financing for financial businesses. Wes taught at the Graduate School of Banking, University of Colorado, for many years. He holds a MBA with honors from the University of Chicago.
The Biohistory of Feminism is a multilayered project that incorporates evolutionary biology to argue that behaviors labelled feminist by human cultures are already found in nature, and that there is no one path to being female.
Written by Carol Blakney & Abel Alves, publication date 2/2/2026!
Written by Carol Blakney & Abel Alves, publication date 2/2/2026!
January 13, 2026 at 3:51 PM
The Biohistory of Feminism is a multilayered project that incorporates evolutionary biology to argue that behaviors labelled feminist by human cultures are already found in nature, and that there is no one path to being female.
Written by Carol Blakney & Abel Alves, publication date 2/2/2026!
Written by Carol Blakney & Abel Alves, publication date 2/2/2026!
Information from www.etamu.edu/people/mylyn...
Dr. Mylynka Kilgore Cardona is a transatlantic historian with a background in historical cartography. She is currently writing a book manuscript that studies nineteenth-century Dutch woman Alexine Tinne, who traveled and explored the Nile River in the 1850s and 1860s.
January 6, 2026 at 3:43 AM
Information from www.etamu.edu/people/mylyn...
Dr. Mylynka Kilgore Cardona is a transatlantic historian with a background in historical cartography. She is currently writing a book manuscript that studies nineteenth-century Dutch woman Alexine Tinne, who traveled and explored the Nile River in the 1850s and 1860s.
January 6, 2026 at 3:43 AM
Dr. Mylynka Kilgore Cardona is a transatlantic historian with a background in historical cartography. She is currently writing a book manuscript that studies nineteenth-century Dutch woman Alexine Tinne, who traveled and explored the Nile River in the 1850s and 1860s.
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Dr. Lydia Towns holds a PhD in Transatlantic History from the University of Texas at Arlington. Her research interests include the Early Modern Atlantic World, Cartographic History, Tudor England, and Piracy/Privateers history. She currently serves as the President of SHD!
January 4, 2026 at 10:09 PM
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Dr. Lydia Towns holds a PhD in Transatlantic History from the University of Texas at Arlington. Her research interests include the Early Modern Atlantic World, Cartographic History, Tudor England, and Piracy/Privateers history. She currently serves as the President of SHD!
January 4, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Dr. Lydia Towns holds a PhD in Transatlantic History from the University of Texas at Arlington. Her research interests include the Early Modern Atlantic World, Cartographic History, Tudor England, and Piracy/Privateers history. She currently serves as the President of SHD!
Georgetown University’s “Map of the Modern World” is likely the largest class in the world that uses maps to teach geopolitics and world affairs. Examples will include a Spanish colonial manuscript, 18th century South America map, migratory bird flyways maps, and Crimean maps. Register below!
December 31, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Georgetown University’s “Map of the Modern World” is likely the largest class in the world that uses maps to teach geopolitics and world affairs. Examples will include a Spanish colonial manuscript, 18th century South America map, migratory bird flyways maps, and Crimean maps. Register below!
Introducing the Society for the History of Discoveries, founded in 1960 by Jack Parker, Thom Goldstein, and Steve Slessarev. If you have an interest in teaching, research, and publishing the history of geographical exploration and its impact, this is the place for you!
December 30, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Introducing the Society for the History of Discoveries, founded in 1960 by Jack Parker, Thom Goldstein, and Steve Slessarev. If you have an interest in teaching, research, and publishing the history of geographical exploration and its impact, this is the place for you!