Articles
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Family Separation Is Not Only an American Legacy — It’s a Racist One
When Attorney General Jeff Sessions imposed a new policy of “zero tolerance” for illegal immigration…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Nursing done in wild…
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Between War and Water: Saratoga Springs and Veteran Health after the First World War
One month and eight days before world leaders signed the Armistice to end the First…
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Whose Milk? Changing US Attitudes toward Maternal Breastfeeding
In the spring of 2018, government delegates from around the world gathered in Geneva, Switzerland…
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“We’re Here As Women”: General Hospital, #MeToo, and the Power of Soap Operas
Split personalities and evil twins, secret babies and long-lost heirs. Soap operas provide us with…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Slavery and fashion. Good…
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At Your Service: The Role of the Historian in Contemporary Reproductive Rights Debates
A new wave of frenetic reproductive puritanism appears to be sweeping the globe. From Trump’s…
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Adventures without Archives: Professors without Travel Funding
I am a professor teaching at a public teaching university in Grand Junction, Colorado. I…
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Up in Flames: The Death of Brazil’s Museu Nacional
What do you do when your archive burns down? That’s a question that I, as…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Finding Hope. A history…