Articles
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Clio Flicks: A Vote for Suffragette
Full disclosure: I have been waiting for a decent film about the women’s suffrage movement…
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Public Health and the Dead at Johnstown
In the twenty-four hour news cycle we live in, we frequently are treated to instantaneous…
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No Safe Spaces: Missouri, ISIS, and What We Can Do About It
Before the terrorist attacks in Paris and Beirut a few weeks ago, I had begun…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Bearded ladies on display.…
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The Paradox of Thanksgiving
With its odd combination of tradition and invention, its appeals to the past and to…
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Nursing Thanksgiving
In November 1820, the Reverend John Marsh delivered a Thanksgiving Day sermon in Haddam, Connecticut…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Getting a taste of…
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“She Looks the Abortionist and the Bad Woman”: Sensation, Physiognomy, and Misogyny in Abortion Discourse
In November of 1866, a minor sensation rocked the Albany area following the death of…
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The History of a Wrist: When Historians Fall Over
In mid-September, I fell over my back door step and landed on my wrist. The…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news A history of death…
