Articles
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Heritage is Not History: Historians, Charleston, and the Confederate Flag
It’s hard to be a historian these days without constantly hearing about the supposed irrelevance of…
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Female Presidential Candidates Aren’t the Answer: Republicans and the Reframing of the War on Women in 2016
There seems to be some confusion about what the controversial term “the Republican war on…
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Police Brutality, Mental Illness, and Race in the Age of Mass Incarceration
On November 9, 2014, two Ann Arbor police officers shot and killed Aura Rosser, a…
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Obergefell Made History, and History Made Obergefell
History matters. Sober and sophisticated historical research can make a difference in the world. I…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news A history of the…
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Pregnancy, Fear, and Conformity
Last fall, while in the midst of a severe head cold and four months pregnant,…
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Don’t Eat That, Eat This: The Troubled History of Food Stamps and Nutrition
Lately, it seems like everywhere I turn I see discussions about how poor people use…
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The Sleepers
Unless we’re toiling away in an English PhD program, most of us don’t pause in…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Gendering Reefer Madness. The…
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A Doctor, a Patient, a Rash, and Google
Don’t you hate it when you can’t get your doctor to agree with your own…
