Around the world, ceremonies, public art installations, concerts, lectures, and educational events are commemorating the fallen of the First World […]
Change over Time: A Colorado Love Story
In 1992, 53% of Colorado voters answered yes to this question on the ballot: “Shall there be an amendment to […]
Truly Ambitious Women: Women Chiropractors and World War I
In the turn-of-the-century United States, women were among the first chiropractors. In a period when established medical schools barred women […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news “Strippers are artists.” 56 delightful Victorian slang terms. Guide […]
Give Thanks for Crossing Guards
“Wait on the curb, kids. Wait until I say you can cross.” Janice, the crossing guard at Fairmount Avenue, stepped […]
“Battalion of Life”: American Women’s Hospitals and the First World War
Shortly after the United States entered the First World War in April 1917, Dr. Rosalie Slaughter Morton of Virginia published […]
“A Male Department of Warfare:” Female Ambulance Drivers in the First World War
While serving as an ambulance driver during the First World War, Pat Beauchamp witnessed the harrowing sight of four soldiers […]
Bohemian Rhapsody
In July 1985, at 6:20pm local time, Queen (comprised of bassist John Deacon, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor, and […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Red dead suffragettes. American Nazis in the 1930s. A […]
“The Joy of My Life”: Seeing-Eye Dogs, Disabled Veterans/Civilians and WWI
On December 13, 1933, Captain A. J. C. Sington, then Chairman of the British Guide Dogs for the Blind, read […]
