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Vincent L. Femia

urban historian and historian of science based in Washington, D.C.

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My Publications

Magnificent Distances: The Rise and Fall of the Capital City of Science, 1862-1920

The Natural History of Nations: Simon Newcomb and the Forging of a Postwar American Science

Through the Looking Glass of the Coming Kingdom

Republicans’ anti-democratic, anti-Black plans for D.C. are a 19th-century throwback

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About

I am a Research Associate at the Smithsonian Institution and a Lounsbery Research Assistant at the American Philosophical Society. I received a PhD in the History of Science from Princeton University and an MPhil in the History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge. My work focuses on the interactions among science, governance, and urbanism in the United States between Reconstruction and the 1920s. I am currently working on a book manuscript that is an urban history of science of Washington, D.C., during the long Reconstruction period.

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