Articles
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The Misuse of History in The Business of Birth Control
“The Business of Birth Control,” a 2021 film directed by Abby Epstein and executive produced…
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Abortion in Mexican History: An Interview with Elizabeth O’Brien
Nursing Clio’s third annual best article prize went to Elizabeth O’Brien, an assistant professor of…
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Family Connections: Melissa Fu’s Peach Blossom Spring
“To know a story is to carry it always, etched in his bones, even if…
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America Responds to Monkeypox: Learning from the History of HIV/AIDS
As known cases of monkeypox in the United States, the vast majority of which are…
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Better Sight, Better Light: Eyesight and Selling the Farm Wife on Electric Modernity
On a chilly Monday in early February 1940, hundreds of locals had crowded into a…
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Accidental Traces: Stowaway Objects in the Radio Haiti Archive
From the early 1970s until 2003, Radio Haïti-Inter, or simply Radio Haiti, was the country’s…
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Making Maternal Labor Visible
Popular culture tells us many things about Americans. We watch stories of made-up families and…
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Reckoning with the History of Racial Marketing of Menthol Cigarettes
In Pushing Cool, Dr. Keith Wailoo presents a sixty-year history of menthol cigarettes becoming a…
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Abortion Is a Human Right
We – like you – are horrified and outraged that the Supreme Court of the…
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“o what happiness it wood be for me to see you once more”: A Mother’s Letter, a Royal Navy Sodomy Hanging, and the Tragic in Queer History
Content warning: Sexual violence and rape; sexual abuse of minors; state violence against queer people.…
 
