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5 Cs of History

For F*ck’s Sake: A History of English-Language Swearing

Swear words shock and offend. They also have a physiological impact on us: we blush, our heart races, and our brain is stimulated. The words that have this power vary over time and space. The history of swear words really drives home the idea that the past is a foreign Read more…

By Marissa Rhodes, 21 hours21 hours ago
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Bad Women

Tituba, The “Black Witch” of Salem

Anyone who’s read or seen Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible likely remembers Tituba, the enslaved woman who sets off the 1692 witch panic in Salem, Massachusetts. In literature and history, she’s been depicted as both a menacing Barbadian voodoo queen and a Black feminist touchstone. Who was the real Tituba? Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 1 year1 year ago
Radical Religion

Wound Worship, “Enthusiasts” and “Sodomites”: A History of Radical Moravians

They stoked rebellion in enslaved Africans in Suriname, they possessed an unhealthy obsession with blood, gore, and the genitals of Jesus Christ, they allowed their women to preach (against the Pauline prescriptions) and they indulged in all kinds of wicked behavior. Worst of all, to their many enemies, people liked Read more…

By Marissa Rhodes, 4 years1 year ago
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Eugenics

Eugenics in the Making: Human Typologies, Population Hygiene, and Racial Science in the 18th Century

By the 19th Century, the European public had been engaging in scientific debate for decades, gathering exotic curiosities, and energetically pursuing the secrets of life. At the same time, they enslaved millions of Africans, profited from the exploitation of their labor, along with that of American Indians and Chinese coolies, Read more…

By Marissa Rhodes, 4 years1 year ago
Creepy, Occult & Otherworldly

Forensic Pathology and the History of Death Investigation

This Halloween, take a minute to notice amputated limbs littering haunted houses, scary stories about reanimated corpses that you tell by the fire while you’re camping, all that rubbernecking on the thruway when there’s a horrific accident, the endless tv shows, podcasts, and books dedicated to grisly murders… or even Read more…

By Marissa Rhodes, 4 years1 year ago
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Fashion

Underwear: A History of Intimate Apparel

Underwear, the unseen garments which sit in close proximity to genitals, skin, and all sorts of unmentionable orifices, are the most poorly-documented garments in history yet they shaped bodies, minds, and societies in complex and interesting ways. Sometimes we do really tight, analytical episodes. This is not one of those Read more…

By Marissa Rhodes, 5 years1 year ago
Law

Coverture: Married Women and Legal Personhood in Britain

The doctrine of coverture deprived married women of legal status, merging her legal personhood with her husband’s. Today we’ll get into the complex ways that the doctrine of coverture shaped the lives of married women in the British Isles from the 11th to the 19th centuries. Listen, download, watch on Read more…

By Marissa Rhodes, 5 years1 year ago
Puritans and Sexuality
Sex

Puritan Sex: The Surprising History of Puritans and Sexual Practices

We have an image of puritans as cold, severe, hyper-strict and religious people, and while that’s not entirely false, it’s also not entirely true. From the very beginning, early Americans were thinking about sex. The courts were burdened with hundreds of cases in which people broke the laws regarding sexual morality, Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 6 years2 years ago
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