Articles
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The History of a Wrist: When Historians Fall Over
In mid-September, I fell over my back door step and landed on my wrist. The…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news A history of death…
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Happy Miscarriages: An Emotional History of Pregnancy Loss
An article published earlier this year in Obstetrics and Gynecology exposed Americans’ misunderstandings about miscarriage.…
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Yes, I’m a Wife, But You Can Call Me the “Current Supporting Spouse”
The year my second son was born, I went to work, and my husband stayed…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news How lobster got fancy.…
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An Interview with Historian Heather Ann Thompson (Part 2)
The second in a two-part interview with historian Heather Ann Thompson, whose seminal article on…
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Mental Health and Criminal Justice in Civil War Kentucky
The Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition (CWG-K) is a cutting-edge digital humanities…
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An Interview with Historian Heather Ann Thompson (Part 1)
2010 was an important year for scholarship documenting the history of the carceral state. In…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The history of “Boo!”…
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Ghosts are Scary, Disabled People are Not: The Troubling Rise of the Haunted Asylum
This past spring, the defunct Willard Psychiatric Center (previously known as the Willard Asylum for…
