Articles
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Militaristic Homophobia: Attitudes toward Homosexuality in Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia
“Sin doesn’t lie in the act itself, but in its relation to other things.”1 Mikhail…
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In Memoriam
Among the many things in academia that graduate school does not prepare you for is…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Ancient recycling. Psychological cinema.…
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Challenging Myth and Misogyny in the Ripper Murders: An Interview with Hallie Rubenhold
In her new book The Five: The Untold Stories of the Women Killed by Jack…
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What Women “Want”: Wordsmithing Education Reform Rhetoric
Persuaders and Persuadees The decentralized nature of public education in America means that any one…
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Shame and Shearing: The Politics of Women’s Hair in Independence-Era Ireland
The mother pleaded with them and asked them if they had daughters or sisters of…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Epidemics and urban design.…
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Dinner with Death: Kate Bender, Murder, and Mayhem on the Kansas Prairie
With the close of the American Civil War, western states like Kansas teemed with travelers…
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Over-the-Counter Anxiety: Selling the Home Pregnancy Test
Walk through the aisles of any American drugstore, and you’ll eventually encounter the home pregnancy…
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Hannah Gadbsy and the Comedy of the History Lecture
She had me at Douglas’ Pouch. The Mary Toft reference was just a bonus. I went…
