Let’s face it, we all knew 2017 was going to be a garbage fire. But in between the political nightmares, […]
A Well-Balanced Serving of School Food History — With a Side of Grassroots Reform
I have few memories of school lunches from my childhood. I do recall the small milk cartons and brown milky […]
Book Review: Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital
America’s oldest public hospital started as a tiny, one-room infirmary in a New York City almshouse in 1736. Two hundred […]
Quinine, Magic Pollen, and the British Empire in Fiction
Hands down, my favorite book of 2016 (and possibly ever) was The Watchmaker of Filigree Street. I read it with […]
Option Whatever: The Corporatization of Grief in Sheryl Sandberg’s Option B
Two years ago, my husband Clayton was murdered. That summer, I wrote a lot in my journal. I felt angry […]
Women Who Are Too Much: Ann Helen Petersen’s Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud
If you read feminist journalism, you’ve probably come across culture writer Anne Helen Petersen’s work at BuzzFeed. With a PhD […]
The Baby as Scientist and the Parent as Gardener: Alison Gopnik’s Inspiring Views on Childhood
There’s nothing better than kicking back with a light read in the warm months of the year. Summer is a […]
The Spoils of War: A Review of Sex and the Civil War
Many years ago when I was first starting my dissertation research on Civil War disability, I had an opportunity to […]
Learning to Love Science: Rebecca Onion’s Innocent Experiments and the History of an American Cultural Tradition
As a child, did your parents encourage you to participate in a science fair? Perhaps you received a chemistry set […]
“We’ve Got to Get to Work”: John Lewis’s March
Congressman John Lewis is an American hero. As he tweeted on the anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington, he […]