These four pathbreaking essays provide new insights into the role of women and war in military history. They pay particular […]
It Just Wasn’t a Good Fit
Charity Adams Earley’s winter coat didn’t fit. At the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps Training Center in Des Moines, Iowa, in […]
Writing “Hearts and Minds” as Feminist Military History
I was very proud to defend my dissertation on the British Indian Army on March 8 – International Women’s Day […]
Beyond Women and War: The Lens of Feminist Military History
My first understandings of feminist military history developed when I was an officer in the US Air Force in the […]
The Guerrilla Household of Lizzie and William Gregg
Taking a feminist lens to the Civil War in Missouri–known for its models of hypermasculinity like William Quantrill, “Bloody Bill” […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news A new Hippocratic oath. How I became radicalized. Compounding […]
The Racist Lady with the Lamp
Nursing historiography is centered on whiteness. Even worse, nursing history revolves largely around a single white nurse: Florence Nightingale. This, […]
Why Are So Many Fellowships Residential?
It’s fellowship application season for academics. A time when we all beat the bushes of the internet, trying to find […]
A Historic Intersex Awareness Day
This year’s Intersex Awareness Day, October 26, marked a historic pivot. A few days before, Boston Children’s Hospital revealed that […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Monstrous men. Coming out as intersex. The long-lost ritual […]