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Sarah Handley-Cousins

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Bodies

A History of Racial Passing in the United States

Late in 2020, a number of white academics were revealed to be passing as people of color, making the concept of racial passing a matter of national conversation. For these white folks, the benefits of being considered a person of color were based on a perception that minorities somehow have Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 2 years1 year ago
John Trumbell, The Capture of the Hessians at Trenton, 1776
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American Exceptionalism at its Most Disturbing: “The 1776 Report”

Just two days before he left office, Donald Trump released a Report generated from the 1776 Commission, a presidential advisory committee he created in September 2020 to combat, in his words, the “wicked web of lies” in some versions of American history. The commission was sparked by the right-wing outrage Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 2 years2 years ago
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Elections

Race, Politics, and Chaos in the Capitol: The Election of 1876

The consequences of 1876 were enormous. To end the the election limbo, Democratic and Republican politicians worked out a shadowy deal in which Rutherford Hayes was declared the president (by one electoral vote!) and the Republicans agreed to end Reconstruction in the former Confederacy. The results of the “Compromise of Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 2 years2 months ago
Drugs

Mother’s Little Helper: Psychiatry, Gender, and the Rise of Psychopharmaceuticals

For centuries, psychiatrists searched for the cure to mental illness, frustrated that medical doctors seemed to be able to find the “magic bullet” medications to fight disease and infection. In the mid 20th century, though, a series of new major and minor tranquilizers revolutionized the world of psychiatry. Doctors doled Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 2 years1 year ago
The Witch Trial, William Powell Frith, 1848
Witches

Doctor, Healer, Midwife, Witch: How the the Women’s Health Movement Created the Myth of the Midwife-Witch

In 1973, two professors active in the women’s health movement wrote a pamphlet for women to read in the consciousness-raising reading groups. The pamphlet, inspired by Our Bodies, Ourselves, looked to history to explain how women had been marginalized in their own healthcare. Women used to be an important part Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 3 years1 year ago
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Food

Slavery & Soul Food: African Crops and Enslaved Cooks in the History of Southern Cuisine

 In June 2020, Quaker Oats announced they were revamping their famous (infamous?) brand of breakfast products, Aunt Jemima. From the late 19th century to the late 1980s, Aunt Jemima products prominently featured the image of the Black mammy trope to sell the idea that all white families could have the Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 3 years1 year ago
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Sex

Sex & Soldiers: Combating Sexually Transmitted Infection in the US Military

Wherever you have a military, you will have sex. Whether it’s an occupied city, an encampment in a theater of war, or a military base here in the United States, anywhere you have a large population of young men, stationed away from their girlfriends and wives, you will soon have Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 3 years1 year ago
engraving of the Hamilton-Burr Duel
Violence

Honor, Manhood, Slavery: Political Violence from Alexander Hamilton to John Brown

Dueling seems crazy to us today. Two men take ten paces, turn to face each other, and stand still while they shoot to kill, all the while following strict rules. But while it’s easy to think of duels as simply evidence of a more violent age, dueling and other similar Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 3 years1 year ago
An engraving of Fortress Monroe
2020!

Slave, Contraband, Refugee: The Complicated Story of the End of Slavery in the United States

Just over one month after the first shots of the Civil War were fired, three enslaved black men got into a row boat and paddled across the James River from mainland Virginia to the Union-occupied Fortress Monroe. Whether they knew it or not, the three young men – named Frank Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 3 years1 year ago
A fresco of the Danse Macabre from an Estonian church
Death

The Black Death: Dancing with Death in the Medieval World

The Black Death raged across Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia in the mid 14th century. Families were thrown into chaos, the Catholic church faced dissension in its ranks, and townships struggled to provide services and control infection. The sheer ubiquity of death even fostered an artistic genre: the Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 3 years1 year ago

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