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Dystopian Bodies

In her newest book, Barbara Ehrenreich attacks the "epidemic" of wellness.
by Niko Maragos via Los Angeles Review of Books on June 7, 2018
Vegetable stand at the Mulberry St. bend, photograph by Jacob Riis.

Policing Unpolicable Space: The Mulberry Bend

Sanitation reformers confront a neighborhood seemingly immune to state intervention.
by Matthew Guariglia via The Metropole on May 10, 2018

The Right Way to Remember Rachel Carson

She did not write her most famous work until late in life. Until then, she thought of herself as a poet of the sea.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on March 19, 2018

Asthma and the Civil Rights Movement

Unraveling the connections between public health and civil rights in 1960s New Orleans.
by Ijeoma Cola via Books, Health and History on November 2, 2017
An illustration of Christopher Columbus’s initial meeting with Native Americans.

The Columbian Exchange

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
by Jamie Lathan via Digital Public Library of America on September 19, 2017

Thank the Erie Canal for Spreading People, Ideas and Germs Across America

For the waterway's 200th anniversary, learn about its creation and impact.
by Lorraine Boissoneault via Smithsonian on July 3, 2017

The Stranger Who Started an Epidemic

A huge expansion of the population of New Orleans created the perfect environment for the spread of yellow fever, and recent immigrants suffered most.
by Anna Faherty via Wellcome Collection on June 15, 2017

Why Poverty Is Like a Disease

Emerging science is putting the lie to American meritocracy.
by Christian H. Cooper via Nautilus on April 20, 2017

Woodrow Wilson, Mental Health, and the White House

The debate about the nature of Woodrow Wilson's health is intertwined with questions about his self-righteous character.
by Matthew Wills, Robert M. Saunders, Kenneth S. Lynn via JSTOR Daily on March 20, 2017
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Could You Patent the Sun?

Decades after Dr. Jonas Salk opposed patenting the polio vaccine, the pharmaceutical industry has changed.
via Retro Report on December 11, 2016

Is Racism a Disease?

Is a psychological diagnosis a useful way to view racism-or does it merely absolve the racist of blame?
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on November 17, 2016
A White man injecting a shot into an African American man.

The Lasting Fallout of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study

A recent paper provides evidence that the Tuskegee Syphilis Study reduced the life expectancy of African-American men.
by Nashwa Khan via JSTOR Daily on June 20, 2016
Graph depicting deaths from cholera in New York City in 1849

Infographics in the Time of Cholera

To inform its readers of a cholera epidemic, The New York Tribune published an ancestor to our current infographics.
by Scott Klein via ProPublica on March 16, 2016
Woman sniffing perfume in a magazine ad.

Our Pungent History: Sweat, Perfume, and the Scent of Death

Throughout the long and pungent history of humanity, smelling healthy has been as delightful as it has disgusting.
by Hunter Oatman-Stanford via Collectors Weekly on March 8, 2016
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Rumming with the Devil

A perusal of Benjamin Franklin’s "Drinker’s Dictionary," and a chat about how the drink of choice in revolutionary America switched from cider to rum.
via BackStory on January 1, 2016

Bad Air in William Delisle Hay’s 'The Doom of the Great City' (1880)

Deadly fogs, moralistic diatribes, debunked medical theory in what is considered to be the first modern tale of urban apocalypse.
by Brett Beasley via The Public Domain Review on September 30, 2015
Pilgrims going to church armed with guns.

God and Guns

Patrick Blanchfield tracks the long-standing entanglement of guns and religion in the United States. Part 1 of 2.
by Patrick Blanchfield via The Revealer on September 25, 2015
Children in New York City waiting in line for immunization shots, 1944

Vaccination Resistance in Historical Perspective

The vaccination skepticism of today is rooted in postwar social movements, prompting a new generation of parents and children to question drugs and doctors.
by Elena Conis via Teaching American History on August 1, 2015
Photograph of Boston Corbett

The Insane Story of the Guy Who Killed the Guy Who Killed Lincoln

Meet Boston Corbett, the self-castrated hatmaker who was John Wilkes Booth's Jack Ruby.
by Bill Jensen via Washingtonian on April 13, 2015

How the Military Waged a Graphic-Design War on Venereal Disease

"Fool the Axis—use Prophylaxis!"In many ways, such a coordinated public effort to alter sexual behavior was unprecedented.
by Hunter Oatman-Stanford via Collectors Weekly on February 11, 2015
Photo of Laura Bridgman wearing opaque eyeglasses.

The Education of Laura Bridgman

She was Helen Keller before Helen Keller. Then her mentor abandoned their studies.
by Rosemary Mahoney via Slate on May 1, 2014
A drawing of a hippopotamus with its mouth open wide.

American Hippopotamus

A bracing and eccentric epic of espionage and hippos.
by Jon Mooallem via The Atavist on November 28, 2013
Painting from 1857 by Alexander Beydeman depicting the light-filled practise of homeopathy, including a silver-haired Hahnemann, watching disapprovingly on over the horrors wrought by traditional medicine, referred to as Allopathy

Proving It: The American Provers’ Union Documents Certain Ill Effects

The history of "proving", the practice of auto-experimentation that forms the cornerstone of homeopathic medicine.
by Alicia Puglionesi via The Public Domain Review on September 4, 2013

150 Years of Misunderstanding the Civil War

As the 150th of the Battle of Gettysburg approaches, it's time to question the popular account of a war that tore apart the nation.
by Tony Horwitz via The Atlantic on June 19, 2013
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Who Invented Memorial Day?

As Americans enjoy the holiday weekend, does anyone know how Memorial Day originated?
by Jim Downs via HNN on May 28, 2012

What Became of the Taíno?

The Indians who greeted Columbus were believed to have died out. But a search for their descendants yielded surprising results.
by Robert M. Poole via Smithsonian on October 1, 2011
Illustrated cover of the "Secret Garden"

100 Years of The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett's biographer considers her life and how personal tragedy underpinned the creation of her most famous work.
by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina via The Public Domain Review on March 8, 2011

“Destroyer and Teacher”: Managing the Masses During the 1918–1919 Influenza Pandemic

Revisiting the public health lessons learned during the 1918–1919 pandemic and reflecting on their relevance for the present.
by Nancy Tomes via PubMed Central on April 1, 2010

Pox on Your Narrative: Writing Disease Control into Cold War History

How does the global effort to eradicate smallpox fit into the history of U.S.-Soviet relations?
by Erez Manela via Diplomatic History on March 5, 2010

Fear of Frying

A brief history of Trans Fats.
by David Schleifer via n+1 on May 21, 2007
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