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Take Back the Net: Joy Rankin’s A People’s History of Computing in the United States
Should I post a tough parenting question on Twitter, ask my Facebook community, or email a few friends who are […]
Discovery, Interrupted
It was the third and final week of my first dissertation research trip. I’d spent my first two weeks moving […]
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A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Elizabeth I’s love life. A history of buffalo wings. […]
Quacks, Alternative Medicine, and the U.S. Army in the First World War
During the First World War, the Surgeon General received numerous pitches for miraculous cures for sick and wounded American soldiers. […]
“Remember—Don’t Drill a Hole in Your Head”: A Review of The Sawbones Book
The Sawbones Book: The Horrifying, Hilarious Road to Modern Medicine is an adaptation of a Maximum Fun Network podcast, Sawbones: […]
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A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The history of blood. Jack the Ripper outdone. The […]
I Am a Professor in a Movie
Inspired by the “I am a ____ in a movie” phenomenon on Twitter where people in different professions tweeted the […]
Feeling Grief: On Emotions in the Archive of Enslavement
In September, when an archivist at Fisk University asked me to help identify a ten-page manuscript from 1776 Saint-Domingue, my […]
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A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Demented, happy, and useful. Acid and sexual psychonauts. How […]
