Added on January 10, 2023 The Personal is Historical Disability (and) Politics: The Fetterman Fiasco of Fall 2022 In Fall 2022, conservative pundits condemned Senator-elect John Fetterman (D-PA), who had survived a stroke the previous spring, using discriminatory […]
Added on September 16, 2021 Historical essay Why We Should Recognize Dr. Katharine Bement Davis Alongside Dr. Alfred Kinsey as a Pioneering Sex Researcher In 1917, when Dr. Katharine Bement Davis accepted philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr.’s invitation to lead the Bureau of Social […]
Added on November 8, 2018 WWI Centennial “Self-Sacrificing Service”: The Life and Death of a Red Cross Nurse in Wartime France Mary Curry Desha Breckinridge, known as “Curry,” was one of the first American nurses to go to Europe during World […]