Congressman Daniel Sickles murdered Philip Barton Key on February 27, 1859, just steps from the White House. The day before, […]
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For years, when I would tell stories of my time in 1980s San Francisco to friends or students, some of […]
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Naomi Wolf’s latest book, Outrages, was supposed to be released in the United States on June 18, 2019. In May […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
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“Charlie Says” and the Santa Cruz Prison Project
Joan Didion, Again “Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969.” […]
The Politics of Reproductive Rights Legislation in the “Modern” South
On May 15, 2019 Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed legislation that will make the state’s abortion laws the most restrictive […]
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In Mother Is a Verb, Sarah Knott takes her reader on a historian’s journey into motherhood. It is a sort […]
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Take care of yourself, young man. And I — I say that to you sincerely. Take care of yourself. It’s […]
