Articles
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Will Technology Change How We Understand Interpersonal Violence? Maybe. Probably Not.
The Atlantic’s August cover story by Barbara Bradley Hagerty, “An Epidemic of Disbelief,” describes how…
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Historical Fanfiction as Affective History Making
I became a historian because of a television show. That is something I don’t often…
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Thomsonianism Meets Juice Cleanses
I will be the first to admit that I love juices. They’re colorful, full of…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Prehistoric baby bottles. Black…
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“Good” Teeth: American Dental Care and Classism
I used to hide my own teeth. It started in fourth grade during spring photos.…
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Understanding Shaming’s Place in History: The Story of Germany’s Victims
It can be difficult for those who have never experienced sexual violence to understand and…
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A Bloody Sweater and a Pair of Dentures
Private Togo Piper didn’t have many personal belongings. When he died overseas in May 1943,…
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“Immoderate Menses” or Abortion? Bodily Knowledge and Illicit Intimacy in an 1851 Divorce Trial
In 1851, four years after actress Josephine Clifton’s death, she was named as one of…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news States of immunity. A…
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“A Most Damnable Fraud?” Public (Mis)conceptions and the Insanity Defense
James Kahler murdered his two daughters, ex-wife, and grandmother in Kansas on Thanksgiving in 2009.…
