Run Like A Girl

In 2016, we - the Nursing Clio editorial collective - were excited to be living in a historic moment that (we believed) would see the [...]

Reproduction History Syllabus

The History and Politics of Reproduction, Before and After Roe A Syllabus Thank you for helping Nursing Clio create this syllabus, which we hope will [...]

Debating Justice, Politics, and Culture in Black America, From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter

What follows is a reading list based upon a writing-based history course that Austin McCoy taught in the Fall of 2015. While teaching the course, [...]

The Nursing Clio Reader

Coming soon from Rutgers University Press

Awards

Nursing Clio Prize for Best Journal Article The Nursing Clio Prize for Best Journal Article is awarded annually for the best peer-reviewed academic journal article on the [...]

A handwritten diary is open to two pages.

Added on July 7, 2020 Historical essay

“A keen vision and feeling of all ordinary life”: Pandemic Journaling in the History Classroom

In January 2020, I showed students a clip of historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich in the documentary A Midwife’s Tale. Ulrich […]

A white platter with friend okra, fried chicken, mac and cheese, and collard greens

Added on July 6, 2020 Interview

Alvenia Fulton, Soul Food, and Black Liberation: An Interview with Travis Weisse

For the first annual Nursing Clio Prize for Best Journal Article, honorable mention went to Travis Weisse’s excellent and groundbreaking […]

Illustration of pharmacist administering medicine to dog at counter as owner weeps and bystanders watch with alarm,

Added on July 5, 2020 Sunday Morning Medicine

Sunday Morning Medicine

A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Party and protest. A history of tear gas. How […]

Old Burying-Ground in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The image shows typical Puritan gravestone imagery, including a death's head, an hourglass, and text reading "MEMENTO MORI" ("remember you must die") and "FUGIT HORA" (time flies").

Added on July 2, 2020 The Deathbed

Straightened Up and Dying Right? Queering Puritan Deathbeds

When I was ten, I was present at a close family friend’s deathbed, an experience that sparked my lifelong curiosity […]

A drawing of a woman in a white gown sitting in a large chair. She is surrounding by men in robes, all looking at her or bending over her.

Added on July 1, 2020 Historical essay

Such a Pretty Tsaritsa

In her 2018 memoir Such A Pretty Girl, Nadina LaSpina describes her childhood in mid-twentieth century Sicily, and the pitying […]

A photograph of the 2020 Farmer's Almanac on a marble surface.

Added on June 30, 2020 Health and Wellness

Farmers’ Almanacs and Folk Remedies: The Role of Almanacs in Nineteenth-Century Popular Medicine

The Farmer’s Almanac has always been a staple book in my grandmother’s rural North Carolina household. Before deciding when she […]

Painting of Julia Rush, sitting on a chair playng a lute, wearing a sloping-shouldered lavender colored dress.

Added on June 25, 2020 The Deathbed

A Different Kind of Expert

In the spring of 1813, Abigail Adams wrote to her friend Julia Rush inquiring after the death of Julia’s husband […]

Added on June 24, 2020 Health and Wellness

Makers of Living, Breathing History: The Material Culture of Homemade Facemasks

Ten days into shelter-in-place orders after my kids’ schools closed, my family and I gathered around the table, staring at […]

Photo of a woman's pregnant belly, illuminated by a soft light to the right.

Added on June 23, 2020 Historical essay

Talking Back to the NIH

In January 2018, Serena Williams went public about how she almost died after giving birth to her daughter. Williams has […]

Added on June 21, 2020 Sunday Morning Medicine

Sunday Morning Medicine

A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Votes for colonized women. The history of the riot […]