
The Leaky Body: Fluids, Disease, and the Millennias-Long Endurance of Humoral Medicine
Pretend it’s 500 BCE and you know nothing about modern, scientific medicine. You know nothing about anatomy or biochemistry or microbes. How would you approach the art of healing your loved ones wh…
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Continuity & the Gender Wage Gap: Or, How Patriarchy Ruins Everything Part II
Starting in the late 1990s, historians like Deborah Simonton and Judith Bennett argued that if we take a step back a look at the longue duree of women’s history, the evidence suggests that even as …
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From Slave Patrol to Street Patrol: Police Brutality in America
Please be aware that this episode contains references to racism and violence. Marissa: In 1937, a man named Page Harris was interviewed at his home for an oral history project. The interview was pa…
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The Invisible Engine: Capitalism’s Reliance on Reproductive Labor and a Gendered Wage
Reproductive labor is the labor or work of creating and maintaining the next generation of workers. This is the work of birth, breastfeeding or bottle feeding, washing dirty butts and wiping runny …
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