This article considers the implications of expanding hydroelectricity for war production and strategy using Canada, the United States and Germany during World War II as an example. The article also examines how war-time decisions structured the longer-term evolution of large technological systems: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022819000366
Julie A. Cohn, Matthew Evenden, Marc LandryFebruary 13, 2020
Nonresident scholar Julie Cohn explores the history of the giant interconnecting machine that linked the majority of power users across the country from 1967 to 1975. Proceedings of the IEEE, Dec. 28, 2018.
The authors compare views on the relationship between faith and health for two groups that are overrepresented in American Christianity and underrepresented in medical careers (African Americans and Latinos) with a group that is similarly religious but comparatively well-represented in medical professions (Korean Americans).
Daniel Bolger, Cleve Tinsley IV, Elaine Howard EcklundNovember 28, 2017
Both black Americans and Latinos have concerns about science teachers being biased. Yet, the groups differ in their assessment of the danger of anti-religious bias, according to findings by the authors. Published by Review of Religious Research.
Daniel Bolger, Elaine Howard EcklundOctober 3, 2017
Nonresident scholar Julie Cohn explores the history of the electric power industry and the turn to information technologies to better process and more efficiently use utility data: Information & Culture, July 20, 2017.
This article analyzes the history of computing in electric power systems and why utilities persistently embraced analog technology before transitioning to digital computing machines: IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, July 13, 2015.