Articles
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It’s Time to Take Nature to Task
In March of this year, one of my respected colleagues and I published a short…
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Sonia Johnson and Sticking It to Haters
Most women who run for president experience some degree of notoriety. Certainly this was the…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Hops and history. Star…
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Bradley Snyder and the Legacy of First World War Blind Veteran Rehabilitation
On April 30 People Magazine featured a story on Brad Snyder, a young swimmer seeking…
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Nonpartisan Organizing in the Most Divided of Times: The League of Women Voters
Based on the ever-updating polls, this presidential election could be one of the strangest ever.…
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Diagnosing Donald Trump
In his analysis of Donald Trump’s fitness for office, Brookings Institution fellow Robert Kagan recently…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Mental health and WWI.…
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How Anti-Vaccine Ideology Crosses the Political Spectrum
Vaccinations have not been a major issue in the 2016 presidential campaign so far, but…
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New York Grandmother Seeks Democratic Presidential Nomination! Ellen McCormack (1926-2011)
No, not that one! Exactly forty years before Hillary Clinton’s historic run and nomination, Ellen…
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Pictures of an Institution: Birth Records at Old Blockley
On September 22, 1859, 30-year-old Margaret Merchant of Philadelphia was admitted to the obstetrical ward…