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A Virginia Mental Institution for Black Patients Yields a Trove of Disturbing Records

Racism documented in files from the “Central Lunatic Asylum for the Colored Insane.”
by Britt Peterson via Washington Post Magazine on March 26, 2021
Postcard depicting the Montefiore Hospital in Pittsburgh

The Rise of Healthcare in Steel City

On deindustrialization, the care economy, and the living legacies of the industrial workers’ movement.
by Gabriel Winant, Nick Serpe via Dissent on March 18, 2021
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Racial Health Disparities Didn’t Start With Covid: The Overlooked History of Polio

The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted racial disparities with roots in the past.
via Retro Report on March 16, 2021
Elizabeth Catte and her book

'Pure America': Eugenics Past and Present

Historian Elizabeth Catte traces the history and influence of eugenics from her backyard across the country.
by Elizabeth Catte, Adam Willems via Scalawag on March 2, 2021
Illustrated 18th century man with hands on him

The Fever That Struck New York

The front lines of a terrible epidemic, through the eyes of a young doctor profoundly touched by tragedy.
by Carolyn Eastman via Smithsonian on February 26, 2021
Gerd Stern.

Ping Pong of the Abyss

Gerd Stern, the Beats, and the psychiatric institution.
by Gabby Kiser via The Beat Museum on February 9, 2021
Black and White photo of demonstrators

When Medicare Helped Kill Jim Crow

By making health care broadly available, the government helps ensure our freedom.
by Mike Konczal via The Nation on January 19, 2021
A group of nurses.

Susie Walking Bear Yellowtail and Histories of Native American Nursing

Yellowtail, the first Crow registered nurse, fought for the inclusion of Native medicine and healing knowledge in reservation hospitals.
by Brianna Theobald via Nursing Clio on November 19, 2020
Women in the Red Cross posing for a picture

Rampaging Invisible Killer Stalks the Entire Country!

Influenza pandemic of 1918 in the United States.
by Ashley Cuffia via Library of Congress on June 1, 2020

A Once-In-A-Century Pandemic

We’re repeating a lot of the same mistakes from the 1918 “Spanish Flu” H1N1 outbreak.
by Sarah Mirk, Eleri Harris, Joyce Rice via The Nib on April 13, 2020
Nurse Minnie Sun holding a baby in the Chinese Hospital

When Chinese Americans Were Blamed for 19th-Century Epidemics, They Built Their Own Hospital

The Chinese Hospital in San Francisco is still one-of-a-kind.
by Laureen Hom, Claire Wang via Atlas Obscura on April 13, 2020
LGBT demonstrators link arms facing a line of mounted police.

They Were Warriors: The ACT UP Protests That Shook Chicago

In 1990, activists — many fighting for their lives — staged one of the biggest AIDS demonstrations in history. Here’s how it played out, in the words of those who were there.
by Mary Patten, Rebecca Makkai, Lori Cannon, Jeff Edwards, Justin Hayford, Saundra Johnson, Owen Keehnen, Steve Migalski, Roberto Sanabria, Jeanne Kracher, Bill McMillan via Chicago Magazine on April 7, 2020

Surviving a Pandemic, in 1918

A century ago, Catholic nuns from Philadelphia recalled what it was like to tend to the needy and the sick during the great influenza pandemic of 1918.
by Allison C. Meier via JSTOR Daily on March 21, 2020

The Coronavirus Is No 1918 Pandemic

The differences between the global response to the Great Flu Pandemic and today’s COVID-19 outbreak could not be more striking.
by Jeremy Brown via The Atlantic on March 3, 2020

The Legal Fight That Ended the Unjust Confinement of Mental Health Patients

Ayelet Waldman on the landmark case O’Connor v. Donaldson.
by Ayelet Waldman via Literary Hub on January 21, 2020
A woman walking toward an isolated house on the Navajo reservation.

The Native American Women Who Fought Mass Sterilization

Over a six-year period in the 1970s, physicians sterilized perhaps 25% of Native American women of childbearing age.
by Brianna Theobald via TIME on November 27, 2019
Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia
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How the Rise of Urban Nonprofits Has Exacerbated Poverty

While "meds and eds" have powered urban economies, they haven't been the gateway out of poverty that many hoped.
by Claire Dunning via Made By History on September 24, 2019

When New Yorkers Burned Down a Quarantine Hospital

On September 1st, 1858, a mob stormed the New York Marine Hospital in Staten Island, and set fire to the building.
by Matthew Wills, Kathryn Stephenson via JSTOR Daily on September 19, 2019

From the Battlefield to 'Little Women'

How Louisa May Alcott found a niche in observing the world around her.
by Jennifer Wilson via New York Review of Books on August 28, 2019

Candy Land Was Invented for Polio Wards

A schoolteacher created the popular board game, which celebrates its 70th anniversary this year, for quarantined children.
by Alexander B. Joy via The Atlantic on July 28, 2019
Black paramedics, police, and bystanders.

The First Responders

The black men who formed America’s original paramedic corps wanted to make history and save lives—starting with their own.
by Kevin Hazzard via The Atavist on June 25, 2019

How Black Philadelphians Fought for Soldiers During World War I

A brief history of the Crispus Attucks Circle, an African American relief agency.
by Amanda Bowie Moniz via National Museum of American History on November 8, 2018

“A Place to Die”: Law and Political Economy in the 1970s

What the substandard conditions at a Pittsburgh nursing home revealed about the choices made by lawmakers and judges.
by Karen Tani via LPE Project on October 18, 2018
A field of gravestones.

Good Bones

What is a small, historically-minded community meant to do with something like Western State Hospital?
by Elizabeth Catte via Popula on September 25, 2018

The Discovery of the Mental Institution

Mental health care has never been adequate in the U.S.
by Sarah Swedberg via Nursing Clio on June 14, 2018

Rewriting My Grandfather’s MLK Story

In excavating the story of King’s visit to Harlem Hospital, I uncovered my grandfather’s own fight for civil rights.
by Lena Felton via The Atlantic on April 3, 2018

Medicare and the Desegregation of Health Care

Separate hospitals for black and white patients were the norm in America, but then all of that changed — and it changed quickly.
by Elana Gordon via WHYY on February 15, 2018
A woman lies dying of influenza while a girl covers her eyes behind her.

The American Influenza Epidemic of 1918: A Digital Encyclopedia

Stories of the places, the people, and the organizations that battled the American influenza epidemic of 1918-1919.
by Howard Markel, J. Alexander Navarro via University Of Michigan Library on September 19, 2016
Missouri State Hospital No. 3.

The Incredible Story of 'Drawings from Inside State Hospital No. 3'

In 1970, a hand-bound portfolio of nearly 300 drawings is found in a dumpster. It would take 41 years to identify the artist who drew them.
by Gabrielle Bruney via Vice on May 13, 2016
Side-by-side portraits of Franklin Pierce and Dorothea Dix

Dorothea Dix and Franklin Pierce: The Battle for the Mentally Ill

Dorothea Dix and Franklin Pierce were in many ways ideological soulmates, but he would not help her effort to improve conditions for the mentally ill.
via New England Historical Society on February 8, 2014
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