Articles
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Sherlock Holmes Comes to Paris: True Crime and Private Detection in the Belle Époque
What’s the appeal of true crime? There’s the mystery to solve and the lure of…
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Exhibition Review: Germ City: Microbes and the Metropolis
One hundred years after the 1918 flu epidemic, Germ City: Microbes and the Metropolis opened…
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Witness to Pain: The Migraine Art Collection
“Good morning Katherine, I just wanted to let you know that we have located the…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Like a virgin? Moon…
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Fictional Detectives and Real-Life Forensic Science
On April 10, 1935, Lord Hugh Montague Trenchard, the Commissioner of London’s Metropolitan Police, invited…
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True Fake Crime
On April 1, 2019, news broke that Awkwafina and Ike Barinholtz are producing and starring…
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The Eugenicists on Abortion
Clarence Thomas recently issued a twenty-page opinion on the Supreme Court decision Box v. Planned…
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Najila and Neymar; or, The Normalization of Violence against Women in Brazil
You may have heard of Neymar, Brazil’s soccer darling.1 With the speed and skill to…
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Louis “The Laughing Eel” Ross and the Road of No Return: Incarcerating the “Criminally Insane”
In 1921 a burglar called the “Laughing Eel” began serving a ten-year prison term, but…
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A Tale of Two Midwives across Four Centuries
What happens when the person who delivers most of the babies in her community is…
