Articles
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Women On the March
The Women’s March in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere the day after Donald J. Trump was…
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The Trauma of Displacement: How History Can Help Us Understand the Refugee Experience
In February of 1915, a fifty-five year old woman, who we will call Ella, was…
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Falling Out of Love with the Civil War
On Thursday morning, as the President of the United States tweeted his tacit support of…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news 98 years of fallen…
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On the Academic Job Market
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What’s Truly Outrageous About Intersex?
On August 5, the World News Daily Report published an article that has been circulating…
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A Boy or A Girl? Sex Selection, Regimen, and Fertility in Ancient Greece
Selecting the sex of an embryo brings up a host of ethical, economic, and political…
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A Historian’s Trip to the Graveyard
bardo, noun (In Tibetan Buddhism) a state of existence between death and rebirth, varying in…
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Real Men & Real Food: The Cultural Politics of Male Weight Loss
When Weight Watchers first launched an online program “customized just for guys” in 2007, one…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Reclaiming stolen history. Salvador…
