Social Dynamics

Deconstructs the legendary tax-protest ride of Godiva and Druid wicker man sacrifices, showing how chroniclers rewritten history to pacify subjects.

Investigates the speculative theory of Roman soldiers settling in Liqian, analyzing how academic bias and modern tourism overwrite authentic Silk Road history.

Exposes the graphic legend of Scotland's cave-dwelling cannibals as a calculated 18th-century English print campaign designed to demonize Jacobite Scots.

Subverts the sanitized literary character of Mulan to explore the genuine, battle-scarred warrior women of Xianbei and Xiongnu steppe confederacies.

A five-part historical series deconstructing iconic internet memes and historical myths—from the Great Emu War to Mulan, Sawney Bean, lost Roman legions, and Lady Godiva.

Debunks the internet meme to expose the tragicomic systemic failures of post-WWI soldier-settler policies and Great Depression agricultural hubris.

Explores how a salacious rumor became an enduring historical truth via printed propaganda in Renaissance Europe.

Details how identity thieves used performance to expose the arbitrary nature of class markers in early modern London.

Traces how a penniless baron staged a performative monarchy to claim real geopolitical power in Corsica.

Unpacks how trained animals and mechanical ducks exploited philosophical debates on consciousness in Enlightenment Europe.