Recovering Women’s Reproductive Lives, One Mutilated Record at a Time
by Catherine Prendergast
Catherine Prendergast is a Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Fulbright Scholar. Her latest book and first…
Difference Between Healing and Curing
Michael Lerner, PhD
In my thirty years of working with cancer patients, I’ve seen a profound distinction between curing and healing.
A River Reawakened
By Jessica Plumb in Orion
Ten Years of Rewilding the Elwha Watershed
IN SEPTEMBER 2011, I stood on a river overlook with children from my daughter’s elementary school, all of us transfixed by…
Dolores Huerta: An American Latino Labor Leader and Civil Rights Activist by Pramod Sukumaran
by Pramod Sukumaran
Dolores Huerta taught us sí se puede—yes we can.
This was Huerta’s rallying cry as she inspired Latino farm workers to demand fair wages and better working condit…
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Ph.D. candidate named Ruth Bader Ginsburg Predoctoral Fellow
By Emma Rothberg
June 9, 2021
The National Women’s History Museum has named Emma Rothberg, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History, as an inaugural U.S. Supreme Court Ru…
The Trailblazing Women of Stand-Up Comedy
By Mariana Brandman
The story of the female pioneers of American stand-up comedy often begins and ends with icons Phyllis Diller and Joan Rivers.
Who Was Pauli Murray?
On a recent episode of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick discussed the legacy of Pauli Murray—a Black, non-binary, queer, feminist, civil rights pioneer who was also a poet, a teacher, a lawyer and legal…
Frances Perkins, 1911
by Heather Cox Richardson in Letters from an American
On March 25, 1911, Frances Perkins was visiting with a friend who lived near Washington Square in New York City when they heard fire engi…
DISCOVER LIFE IN AMERICA
We are a non-profit organization based in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Our goal is to learn all we can about the estimated 60,000+ kinds of organisms living in the Smokies and to sha…
Radical Protests Propelled the Suffrage Movement. Here’s How a New Museum Captures That History
By Alli Hartley-Kong SMITHSONIANMAG.COM OCTOBER 26, 2020
The first of the “silent sentinel” protests occurred on January 10, 1917.