Rachel Carson is often touted as inspiring the modern global environmental movement. In 1962, when Carson’s book Silent Spring was published, she was a fifty-five-year-old former government employee and an award-winning writer of oceanography books. She did Read more
In the mid-1970s, parents in Niagara Falls, New York were struggling to figure out why their children were getting mysteriously ill. For two years, officials from the state had been investigating the environment in Niagara Read more
Since the 1970s, oil and gas companies have been trying to stick their drills in the Arctic coastal plain. Resistance has been persistent and multi-faceted. Environmental conservationist organizations like Sierra Club have testified before Congress Read more
In 1851, a journalist named Henry Mayhew set out to document the lives of London’s working poor. What he found was astonishing. In the richest city in the world, thousands of people made their living Read more
This year, 2026, marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the moment when American patriots pledged their lives and their sacred honor to declare the American colonies independent of the British crown. By Read more
This year, 2026, marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the moment when American patriots pledged their lives and their sacred honor to declare the American colonies independent of the British crown. By Read more
Associate Teaching Professor of History at University at Buffalo. Author of Bodies in Blue. Executive Editor at Nursing Clio. Writes about disability and the American Civil War. Has participated in Civil War reenactments, and still has the petticoats to prove it.
Assistant Professor of History at St. Leo University, former ACLS Fellow/Project Lead of ASU's Journal of the Plague Year. Studies lactating women for hire in the Atlantic world during the Revolutionary era. Unhealthy obsession with true crime podcasts.
Assistant Professor of History at SUNY Brockport. Inaugural Dr. Virginia Radley SUNY Fellow. Writes about Progressive Era women and the formation of the welfare state in the US. Author of Sentimental State. Texas native who married her tattoo artist (not just for the free tattoos).
