Had a Bloody Mary to drink at brunch? Ate a Caesar salad last week? Munched on deviled eggs at that […]
The Case for an African Magneto: African Experiences of Torture and Oppression during World War II
The internet broke in August when Zack Stentz, the writer of X-Men: First Class, tweeted that he wanted Giancarlo Esposito […]
The Universal Basic Income and the Myth of the Housewife
A recent article by Amber A’Lee Frost in Jacobin magazine argues that presidential candidate Andrew Yang’s proposal for a Universal […]
Subversive Samplers: How an Educational Exercise Became a Tool of Feminist Protest
Edith-Anne did this in 1848 and hated every stitch. In the spring of 2016, Edith-Anne’s sampler went viral. Stitched in […]
When Third Place is a Win
On September 30, 2019, medieval historian Ruth Karras launched a poll on Twitter. “What medieval woman should I nominate,” she […]
Anoint an Aries with Sheep’s Blood: Finding the Familiar in the Astral Medicine in Ancient Mesopotamia
From so far in the future, the medicine of ancient Mesopotamia looks strange. After all, it’s easy to dismiss the […]
Butter and the History of U.S. Dietary Guides since 1894
Creamy, sometimes salty, and optimistically yellow, butter is one of my favorite foods. It’s also a scientific and cultural barometer. […]
Cancer DIY: Gendered Politics, Colonialism, and the Circulation of Self-Sampling Screening Technologies in Canada
Innovative. Exciting. Easy. Painless. These are just some of the words used to describe the Delphi Screener — a sterile, […]
Will Technology Change How We Understand Interpersonal Violence? Maybe. Probably Not.
The Atlantic’s August cover story by Barbara Bradley Hagerty, “An Epidemic of Disbelief,” describes how some jurisdictions, in the midst […]
A Bloody Sweater and a Pair of Dentures
Private Togo Piper didn’t have many personal belongings. When he died overseas in May 1943, all that was returned to […]
