Is the gene 'special' for historians? What effects, if any, has the notion of the 'gene' had on our understanding of history? Certainly, there is a widespread public and professional perception that genetics and history are or should be in dialogue with each other in some way. But historians and geneticists view history and genetics very differently - and assume very different relationships bet...

The paper explores how the relationship between genetics and history is performed in genetics studies that aim to reconstruct human migrations. It focuses on two case studies: research on the nature of genetic diversity of South Asian populations and on the genetic history of different Jewish communities. Analysis is based on a close reading of sixteen articles on the genetic history of Jewish ...

Due to a lack of NLP tools adapted to the task of analysing historical text, historians and other researchers in humanities often need to manually search through large volumes of text in order to find certain pieces of information of interest to their research. In this paper, we present a web-based tool for automatic information extraction from historical text, with the aim of facilitating this...

historical sociology, as a comparative study of social groups, leads to the understanding of the structure of a society, its background and its composition in the past and these serve as the setting for the historical events. it also provides an insight which bridges the gap in the evidence and claims of the historians and contributes to the improvement and promotion of historians' mode of...