Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- A history of Peeps.
- A little mercurial history.
- The death of the hippies.
- The Red Summer of 1919.
- The return of reefer madness.
- The CCC and African Americans.
- The “baby dolls” of New Orleans.
- When slaveowners got reparations.
- Victorians and their love of leeches.
- Spy, amputee, wearer of live snakes.
- The PowerPoint slide that killed 7 people.
- Conspiracy theories in 19th-century politics.
- The lesser-known history of slavery in California.
- Colonizing condiments: a short history of ketchup.
- White ghosts, silver bullets, and the Haitian Revolution.
- The Yankees stop playing Kate Smith because of her racist jingles.
Featured image caption: A French Easter greetings card overprinted in Dutch for the Belgian market. The heavily made-up male figure strikes a pose holding an Easter egg, Paris. (Courtesy Wellcome Collection)
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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.