Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
Jacqueline AntonovichA weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Disasters have histories.
- A brief history of gay theater.
- The controversial Sister Serpents.
- Nasty women, meet gobby women.
- How social media spread a historical lie.
- “For decades, our coverage was racist.”
- The ten women of the FBI’s most wanted.
- The whitewashing of King’s assassination.
- How frontier nuns challenged gender norms.
- History, memory, and the power of black radio.
- How American high schools teach the Iraq War.
- From dreams of Valentino to death on the beach.
- The lessons of a black settlement on the frontier.
- Meet the woman who wrote “We Shall Overcome.”
- A museum, a radio, a meteorite, and 15 minutes of fame.
- Why Wikipedia often overlooks stories of women in history.
- A woman who wasn’t “well-behaved,” but didn’t “make history.”
Featured image caption: Maternity ward, Lincoln Hospital and Home. (Courtesy New York Public Library)
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Jacqueline Antonovich is the creator and co-founder of Nursing Clio and served as executive editor from 2012 to 2021. She is an Assistant Professor of History at Muhlenberg College. Her current research focuses on women physicians, race, gender, and medical imperialism in the American West. Jacqueline received her PhD from the University of Michigan in 2018.