I got the chance to speak with historian Elizabeth Garner Masarik about her new book The Sentimental State: How Women-Led […]
“Mistreatment by Words and Blows”: Domestic Violence between Lived Realities and Colonial Meanings
The evidence of domestic violence in eighteenth-century Pondichéry – France’s former colony in South Asia – resides in what might […]
Listening to Women Nurses and Caretakers: A Case Study from the Smallpox Epidemic Among North Carolina Moravians
As we reflect on how COVID-19 continues to shape society, the centrality of nursing during health care emergencies becomes clear. […]
The Labor of Love: Transforming Dementia Research With Alexandre Baril and Marjorie Silverman
From intersex Revolutionary War generals to Indigenous identities that predate colonization, transgender and non-binary people have a long and storied […]
The Strange Nostalgia of Childbirth
Nostalgia inflects modern childbirth. When I first became pregnant, back in August 2022, I joined a few Facebook groups dedicated […]
First Lady In Motion: Betty Ford and the Public Eye
As with all modern First Ladies, photographs of Betty Ford are easy to find on the Internet. One striking image, […]
On the Move: How Sports Clothes Became Fashion?
Even if you are not a gym rat or a sport enthusiast, it is almost impossible today to escape the […]
Sex Lives
For those of us who teach pre-modern English history and literature, there’s a conversation that happens nearly every semester. When […]
Money in the Archives: Collection and Recollection
John Money’s archives pulled me in like a tractor beam. I cannot remember when or how I first learned about […]
Life Before Conception: Gamete Personhood in the Wake of Dobbs
In a shocking 2023 Oklahoma District Court ruling, lesbian mother Kris Williams lost custody of her son, Warren, to sperm […]
