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Dietary advice from the eighteenth century: hold the cream after dinner & the...
No, no, NO! The Anglo-American tendency to see food as medicine (rather than a vehicule for pleasure) runs deep. Reading eighteenth and early nineteenth century cookbooks and dietary advice manuals,...
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History, Judge Lynch, and Walking While Black: thoughts on Ferguson, MO
Stop by and sit for a spell. Have a cup of coffee, too, while you’re at it! (It’s fresh, or at least it was this morning.) As you have probably guessed, I’ve crawled my way out of the wilderness and...
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It’s so easy to be a 46 year-old old runner near sea level
After 13 years living at 4,659 feet, I’ve forgotten how easy it is to be a runner at sea level! Wow. You old-timers like me who live below 1,000 feet elevation have NO EXCUSES. Working out here feels...
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Joan Rivers, 1933-2014
As most of you have heard, Joan Rivers died yesterday at 81. The LA Times featured a really warm, funny, and feminist take on her career by fellow comedian Kathy Griffin, who considered Rivers a...
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Memento Mori, babies.
Happy Friday! Go pour yourself a cool draught of something and check this out: Via Janice Liedl and Erica Hazel on Twitter, we learn of Anatomia, 1522-1867: Anatomical Plates from the Thomas Fisher...
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Granny watch: new fake issue for mainstream press, same old sexist dismissal
“As Clinton ponders her second run for the White House, many variables are in play, from her age to her health to her economic platform to her status as a soon-to-be grandmother.” I get it that Hillary...
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Randomly generated spam comment, or Camille Paglia?
Random spam generator? It’s increasingly difficult to tell them apart: Sex crime springs from fantasy, hallucination, delusion, and obsession. A random young woman becomes the scapegoat for a...
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Thursday’s lesson: how progressive historical change happens, plus Lena Dunham.
First, Lena Dunham! As usual, Rebecca Traister explains it all: There are American presidents who have come in for less scrutiny than Lena Dunham. There are heads of major banks whose work to erode...
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Historiann: The New York Times Book Review Interview
Giddyup! Today’s post is was inspired by the interview with James McPherson in the New York Times book review last weekend. I reviewed that interview in yesterday’s post. Today, I’ve interviewed...
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This is why no one entertains!
From Michael Specter’s “Against the Grain: Should You Go Gluten-Free?“: For many people, avoiding gluten has become a cultural as well as a dietary choice, and the exposition offered an entry ramp to a...
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Thursday round-up: the death becomes us edition
Scary stuff! Friends, it’s a never-ending round of seminars, walks through the garden, curator-led tours of both the Huntington and the Getty Museums, and lunch and dinner invitations that I have...
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The scariest of them all? Little boys who want to dress up as girls for...
What would we do without GayProf? Kate Cohen writes that the most terrifying costume on Halloween is a little boy who dresses up as a Disney Princess or Wonder Woman, at least in the minds of his...
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“Worlds of Rape, Words of Rape:” Sharon Block on UVA Prez Teresa Sullivan’s...
No time to blog today–instead do not walk, run! over to Nursing Clio to read Sharon Block’s analysis of the UVA gang rape story and UVA President Teresa Sullivan’s victim-denying and victim-blaming...
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Tomorrowland is today! On fresh starts, feminist protest, and the citizens of...
It looks like I completely failed to blog a single word last week. Once this blog starts to feel like another job, I’ll pull the plug, so in the meantime I’ll enjoy my off-line life when I will! I...
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There are no founding mothers, just embarassing aunties and cleaner-uppers:...
Eve Ensler This story, of Mount Holyoke College cancelling a performance of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues because it was deemed exclusive of transwomen’s experiences, is a perfect example of the...
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Anti-abortion legislation failed because Republicans aren’t really “pro-life.”
I’m sure most of you have heard that the new congress failed to pass their anti-abortion bill Wednesday: They almost made it, but then the GOP coalition fell apart—not on wavering opposition to...
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A Letter About a Good Management under the Distemper of the MEASLES, at this...
Because there are so many people here in California who are as hostile to vaccinating their children as many of Cotton Mather’s neighbors in Boston at the turn of the eighteenth century were hostile...
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Beyond the Binary: Trans* History in Early America
Fall 2014 special issue Rachel Hope Cleves has a detailed and interesting report on a panel she convened earlier this month at the Annual Meeting of the American HIstorical Association in New York City...
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Just go read Elizabeth Reis on the Mount Holyoke College non-production of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues at Nursing Clio: Intersex activists have coined the insightful slogan, “No Body is...
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From an email I received from the Chair of the Board of Trustees at Bryn Mawr College about the “recommendation from a Board working group that was created at the September 2014 Board meeting to...
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