It’s October 10, 732 and the Umayyad armies commanded by Abd al-Rahman are facing the Franks led by Charles Martel. The battle is bloody and chaotic. When the fog clears, the Umayyad Muslim invasion is Read more…
In spring 1931, Li Shui Tong met Magnus Hirschfeld when the latter was giving a public lecture in Shanghai. Li was a medical student with a deep–and vested–interest in the exciting new field of sexology. Read more…
Sarah: In 1901, the city of Buffalo was on the brink of what boosters believed was to be the city’s most important chapter. If the year went according to plan, Buffalo would not only seize Read more…
The U.S. healthcare system is the way it is because of decisions made by people at various points in the last century. America’s healthcare issue is the result of a series of interconnected decisions and Read more…
During the Tang dynasty in the mid 8th century, a military leader named Li Baozhen was frustrated with his aging body. He had achieved much military glory and material wealth in his life, but he Read more…
Puerto Rico is a territory of the United States, and its residents are considered United States citizens. However the island’s political status remains a subject of debate and discussion. Some Puerto Ricans advocate for independence, Read more…
2021 ACLS Fellow. Author of Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North. Executive Editor at Nursing Clio. Has participated in Civil War reenactments, and still has the petticoats to prove it.
Assistant Professor of History at St. Leo University, former ACLS Fellow/Project Lead of ASU's Journal of the Plague Year. Studies lactating women for hire in the Atlantic world during the Revolutionary era. Has won lots of really cool grants and fellowships, 2015 article on wet-nursing ads in the Journal of Family History. Unhealthy obsession with true crime podcasts.
Assistant Professor of History at SUNY Brockport. Writes about Progressive Era women and the formation of the welfare state in the US. Forthcoming book with University of Georgia Press. Award-winning article in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly. Texas native who married her tattoo artist (not just for the free tattoos).
