Articles
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A Brief History of “Bouncing Back”
So the world has witnessed yet another round of the Royal Baby bonanza — from…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Sex, art, and misogyny.…
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“Our Moral Obligation:” The Pastors That Counseled in Pre-Roe South Carolina
On December 8, 1971, a Presbyterian pastor in Greenville, SC counseled three women on their…
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From Hospital to Home: Wendy Kline’s Coming Home: How Midwives Changed Birth
Wendy Kline has delivered a new addition to the history of childbirth in America. In…
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For Keeps: Teenage Girls and Anxiety around Sex during the 1990s
In 1995, I was sixteen and experiencing the excitement of my first real love. As…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Siberians in Hawaii. The…
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An Excellent Adventure through Real Queer America
Newsflash: Red-state America is crawling with queer people. Those polite kids handing over your order…
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On the Craft of Editing, Our Teachers, and Leaving Academia
Generations of history graduate students at the College of William & Mary have stories to…
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Japan’s Once and Future Female Emperors
With the abdication today of the Japanese emperor, Akihito, and the passage of the throne…
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Museum Educators Unite: Unionizing the Lower East Side Tenement Museum
On April 15th, 2019, a group of workers in the Lower East Side Tenement Museum’s…
