I spend a lot of time in the place no one wants to be — the cancer center. Every two […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news A history of women dentists. Reexamining Andy Warhol’s death. Science […]
Bans, Boycotts, and Brawls: The 1970s West Virginia Textbook Controversy
To find tensions in American society, look at K-12 textbooks. Not in them, but in the debates they bring to […]
Gender-Bending in Thirteenth-Century Literature: The Roman de Silence
Do genetics or environmental factors determine one’s gender identity? The question may seem a distinctly modern one. Indeed, premodern people […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The WWII love letters between two men. Mending the […]
Liberty Poles and Popular Protest in the Founding Era
As the Trump presidency begins, many Americans are considering how to oppose the harmful federal legislation that will likely follow […]
At the Mercy of the Sea: Women, Reproduction, and Europe’s Migrant Crisis
In 2015 over a million women, children, and men from conflict-ridden parts of Africa and the Middle East made their […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Punk rock and public history. Phrenology and the Civil […]
Keep On Marchin’ – The Women’s Marches of 1876, 1913, and 2017
I routinely listen to Slate’s DoubleX Gabfest, a podcast about women’s issues hosted by Hanna Rosin, June Thomas, and Noreen […]
Referendum on a Life in the Woods
For three decades, my dad’s brothers framed houses. The three of them had a small construction business in rural Connecticut. […]
