Karim Tiro

Karim Tiro holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Pennsylvania and currently serves as a Professor of History and Chair of the History Department at Xavier University. An accomplished scholar and writer, he has published on the Native peoples of southern New England, the War of 1812, and other topics.

There are no artifacts yet that match the categories you have selected. If there is a "Show All" button available, use it to display artifacts.

"... sailors were not really supposed to sleep. They were supposed to work. And it is in seeing them work that one truly begins to appreciate the whaleship as an intricately calibrated wood, rope, and canvas machine."

Karim Tiro: Screw the Past

Reflections on the extraordinary range in the life of the nineteenth-century whaleman.