Explores the life and scientific work of Carl Sartorius (1796–1872), a German émigré who transformed his Veracruz plantation, Hacienda Mirador, into a center of nineteenth-century transatlantic scientific exchange. Between Mirador and Washington: Carl Sartorius and His Collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution Nov 28, 2025 Andreas Markus Schurr
The role of children in history matters, including in knowledge formation and in migration. Simone Lässig introduces a miniseries about children and youth as go-betweens in migration contexts, whether people migrated or knowledge itself. Knowledge and the Agency of Children in Migration Contexts Aug 5, 2020 Simone Lässig
West German experts emphasized cultural otherness as an impediment to the employment—and "emancipation"—of Turkish migrant women instead of attending to the women's testimony about the practical impediments they faced in a system built on the unpaid labor of housewives. Knowledge about the ‘Migrant Woman’ as an Alibi for State Inaction in the Federal Republic of Germany Mar 29, 2022 Lauren Stokes
"Reconstituting the networks of the complex and mobile individuals through which indenture globally spread as a legal form of labor can sharpen our understanding of how migration practices and policies became universalized over the course of the nineteenth century..." Of Dodos, Cane, and Migrants: Networking Migrant Knowledge between Mauritius and Hawai’i in the 1860s Jun 17, 2019 Nicholas B. Miller