Articles
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Women, Prayer, and Household Authority in Irish History
Traveling through Ireland in 1909, writer Robert Lynd described “a strange crying—almost a lamentation” that…
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Superhumanization
On the cover of Black stands a lone Black man in red, hood up, hands…
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History at Home in the Tenement Museum
Several times a day, several days a week, I stand with a group of strangers…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news We need to talk…
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Nursing Clio Presents Its Third Annual Best Of List
Let’s face it, we all knew 2017 was going to be a garbage fire. But…
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Let’s Say “Happy Holidays” and Share Hope, Joy, and Light in the Darkness
“Merry Christmas!” It was the standard December greeting in the New Jersey town where I…
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Creating Battle Signs: Iraq/Afghanistan War Veterans, Art Therapy, and Rehabilitation
During my first research trip to the National Archives in College Park I stayed with…
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Black Nurse, White Milk: Wet Nursing and Slavery in Brazil
In 1888, Brazil became the last country to abolish slavery in the Western hemisphere. The…
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#MeToo and the Massage Envy Scandal: Looking Back and Beyond
“Massage brings all the weirdos out of the woodwork. I mean real sick people who…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The Nazi anatomists. White…
