The year my second son was born, I went to work, and my husband stayed home. It was the most […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news How lobster got fancy. The man who invented relaxation. […]
An Interview with Historian Heather Ann Thompson (Part 2)
The second in a two-part interview with historian Heather Ann Thompson, whose seminal article on mass incarceration, “Why Mass Incarceration […]
Mental Health and Criminal Justice in Civil War Kentucky
The Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition (CWG-K) is a cutting-edge digital humanities project dedicated to imaging, transcribing, […]
An Interview with Historian Heather Ann Thompson (Part 1)
2010 was an important year for scholarship documenting the history of the carceral state. In January, legal scholar Michelle Alexander […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The history of “Boo!” Macabre scientific relics. A brief […]
Ghosts are Scary, Disabled People are Not: The Troubling Rise of the Haunted Asylum
This past spring, the defunct Willard Psychiatric Center (previously known as the Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane) in Ovid, […]
Milk Sharing: What History Can Teach Us
Milk sharing has been in the news lately. In 2013, Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, OH analyzed over 100 samples […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The media’s first moral panic. Getting fit the 19th […]
A Cut Above? Cesarean Sections in Brazil
In the opening scene of The Knick, Steven Soderbergh’s period drama about a fictionalized version of the Knickerbocker Hospital in […]
