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The Historical Origins of Today’s Healthcare Debates

WebIn 1939, Senator Robert Wagner (D-NY) introduced legislation to fund state medical care programs. By the early 1940s, reformers envisioned a more centralized …

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Linking Hunger and Health: The Place of Food Security in the …

WebOn the fiftieth anniversary of what became known as “discovery of hunger” in the United States, it should not be lost upon us that the tropes now being mobilized to …

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Browsing: Health

WebThe best-remembered snake oil salesman, Clark Stanley, handled live snakes in a turn-of-the-century medicine show.…

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Snake Oil Revisited: Household Medicine and the Condescension …

WebThe best-remembered snake oil salesman, Clark Stanley, handled live snakes in a turn-of-the-century medicine show. In front of the audience, he would kill …

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The Histories of Epidemics in the United States

WebMassachusetts and the Troubled History of Compulsory Vaccination in the United States. Over the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic has transformed daily life in …

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Hesitancy against Hope: Reactions to the First Polio Vaccine

WebSensationalist media coverage of hypothetical health risks and the unknown outcome of a large field test fueled further anxiety. “Vaccine for Polio Affirmed as Safe: …

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The Size and Scope of the Carceral State

WebKelly Lytle Hernández, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, and Heather Ann Thompson are the contributing editors for the June 2015 Journal of American History …

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Rebecca Baird on the Free Clinic Movement

WebRebecca Baird has a B.A. in History from UCLA, an M.A. in History from the University of Connecticut, and is finishing her Ph.D. dissertation, “Shelter From the …

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Remembering Julian Bond

WebJulian Bond made history for the first time as a young activist in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. He was a founding member of the Student Nonviolent …

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On Heartbeats, Abolitionists, and Abortion Bans

WebWhen Georgia, Alabama, and Missouri passed their restrictive abortion laws this month, many were outraged. Anti-abortion extremists seem to be throwing caution to …

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The Hidden U.S. Experiments in Guatemala

WebIn Guatemala, a U.S. imperialist project intersected with local norms of morality and social control, and the collusion of U.S. and Guatemalan doctors produced …

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Teaching The Past Through the Lens of the Present

WebThe design committee had four main goals: (1) teach skills in reading, writing, historical thinking, and information literacy through historical content; (2) help …

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Selling American Vigor

WebStarting this May, the FDA is expected to implement a long-delayed component of the Affordable Care Act: mandatory calorie counts on chain restaurant …

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Thursday Highlights at OAH 2024

WebThe 2024 Annual Meeting for the Organization of American Historians opened Thursday. Attendees braved storms and flood warnings to arrive at the Marriott …

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On the Canonization of Junípero Serra

WebBorn and raised in California, Steven W. Hackel is a professor of history at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of the award-winning books, …

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Letting Go: Reacting to the Past and the Student-Centered …

WebMontgomery Wolf teaches U.S. History at the University of Georgia. She is completing a manuscript titled We Accept You, One of Us?Punk Rock, Community, and …

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Imperial Feasting: Representations of Food and Consumption in …

WebAfter the imperial prospects of the war became clear, editors and imagemakers disagreed over the merits of overseas colonization. No longer focused on …

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The Size and Scope of the Carceral State

WebWhile we agree in the narrow, technical sense of how BJS counts government employment in the criminal justice sector, our goal in redefining “criminal …

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On The Cherokee Rose, Historical Fiction, and Silences in the …

WebThe Cherokee Rose tells two stories. The first is about our own time, seen through a fascinating if improbable trio of women—a Cherokee-Creek researcher, an …

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