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Drugs

The Sacred Bark: A History of Quinine

Quinine, the alkaline derived from the bark of the quina-quina tree, would prove the most effective treatment for malarial fever and infection in human history. In the decades after the bark of the tree was exported to Europe, every state with imperialist aspirations wanted access to quinine. The Spanish Crown, Read more…

By Averill Earls, 2 years7 months ago
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2020!

Frankenstein’s Monster: Science, Revolution and Romanticism in the Age of the Enlightenment

To escape what came to be known as The Year Without a Summer, a small group holed up in a Swiss villa and challenged each other to pass the time by telling the best ghost stories. Several notable literary works emerged from this friendly storytelling competition. Lord Byron’s poem Darkness, Read more…

By Marissa Rhodes, 2 years7 months ago
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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, 2 years7 months ago
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Bodies

Miscarriage in Nineteenth Century America

Shannon Withycombe’s Lost: Miscarriage in Nineteenth-Century America puts miscarriage at the center of the study of nineteenth-century science, medicine, and women’s experience with their reproductive bodies. You may be surprised by the range of responses to pregnancy loss, motherhood, and reproduction in the 19th century. Listen, download, watch on YouTube, Read more…

By Elizabeth Garner Masarik, 3 years7 months ago
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Bodies

Skull Collectors: Race, Pseudoscience, and Native American Bodies

In 1996, two college students stumbled upon some skeletal remains in the Columbia River in Washington. The body, it turns out, was the oldest ever found in North America. In order to understand the story and controversy of the Kennewick Man, also known as The Ancient One, we need to Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 3 years7 months 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 years7 months ago
Episode

Science, Reform, and Anti-Vivisection

Things have been pretty political around here lately, so we wanted to dig into something that’s just fascinating and, frankly, creepy: anti-vivisection, or the 19th century campaign to end scientific and medical experimentation on living animals. Join Averill and Sarah as they talk about the practice of vivisection and the efforts Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 5 years5 years ago
Episode

Huddled Masses: Unwanted Immigrants in the Americas

For hundreds of years, governments have been drawing a line in the sand between the wanted citizenry and the unwanted potential citizenry.

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 5 years5 years ago
Episode

Selling Vegetarianism

When did vegetarianism change from a strictly moral concern of philosophers and religious leaders to one justified by science and nutrition concerns? Find out on this episode of the History Buffs Podcast.

By Averill Earls, 5 years5 years ago
Episode

Frankenstein: Monster of the Enlightenment

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley created two of the most enduring characters in literary history with her 1818 work Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus.  You’re probably familiar with modern depictions of Dr. Victor Frankenstein and his monster,  whether through the classic Boris Karloff films, the cartoon incarnation from Hotel Transylvania, or Mel Brooks’ tap Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 6 years4 years ago
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