A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Nazis and angora rabbits. Quarantine as conspiracy? Reexamining The […]
Click! The Ongoing Feminist Revolution
Clio Visualizing History is excited to share with Nursing Clio the launch of a free-access, ad-free online historical exhibit titled […]
Clio Flicks: A Vote for Suffragette
Full disclosure: I have been waiting for a decent film about the women’s suffrage movement for years. As a historian […]
Public Health and the Dead at Johnstown
In the twenty-four hour news cycle we live in, we frequently are treated to instantaneous images of disasters unfolding around […]
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 writing an essay about race, […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Bearded ladies on display. Menus of the 1850s and […]
The Paradox of Thanksgiving
With its odd combination of tradition and invention, its appeals to the past and to the future, its ancestor worship […]
Nursing Thanksgiving
In November 1820, the Reverend John Marsh delivered a Thanksgiving Day sermon in Haddam, Connecticut that couldn’t have been more […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Getting a taste of Pilgrim life. Stonewall’s contested history. […]
“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 the young widow Elizabeth Dunham, […]
