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January 7, 2025

I'm back to kick off 2025 with updates on my writing projects, a 2024 retrospective, and links!

Happy Holidays!

December 20, 2023

It's been an exceptionally quiet newsletter during an exceptionally busy year. This is a quick note of thanks for all of you who have subscribed and to...

Breve No. 6: Mapping Music

January 30, 2023

Lately, one thing occupying my time is a map for Hearing the Americas. The early twentieth century were the first decades of recorded music, which Hearing...

Visualizing the Bills of Mortality

November 14, 2022

This past weekend I attended the Southern History Association conference in Baltimore, my first time attending this conference. I was on a panel about work...

Breve: Mapping American Religion

Lately, a lot of my attention has been on projects related to American religious history, and one of the projects outside of RRCHNM that came across my desk...

November 24, 2021

Hi. If you’re reading this, it means you signed up for Breve sometime in the past year. I was doing this over at Substack, but as of today I’ve migrated over...

Reading the Riot Act

September 9, 2021

This is Breve — the newsletter from Jason A. Heppler, which you can read more about here. If you want more like it in your inbox, consider subscribing....

A Network of Knowledge

The Tudor Networks by Ruth Ahnert, Sebastian Ahnert, and Kim Albrecht is beautiful. Tudor Networks visualizes over 123,000 letters from the UK State Papers...

Introducing Breve

Hello and welcome to Breve! Breve is a way for me to share things that I’m finding interesting on technology and human knowledge — in a Dan Cohen kind of...