The Chinese Exclusion Act: Annotated
The passage and signing of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act set a number of precedents in United States immigration law. First, it barred an entire nation’s population from entering the...
Transgender Legal Battles: A Timeline
In 1952, Christine Jorgensen stepped off of a plane from Denmark, where she had received groundbreaking medical care and had grown into herself as a “blonde beauty,” as the New...
The Living Dead Embody Our Worst Fears
...Science Behind the Zombies Liz Tracey November 3, 2014 Walking Dead: the science behind the zombies. The D-I-Y Origins of Night of the Living Dead Kristin Hunt November 5, 2020...
Plant of the Month: Hyacinth
Between August and October 2021, many trade magazines and blogs were abuzz with news of a Dutch bulb shortage in the U.S. A limited supply of fall bulbs grown in...
Marie Curie and Polish Resistance
Marie Curie won two Nobel Prizes, for physics and chemistry. Most people know that. But few know about her efforts to resist the Russian Empire’s control of a region in...
The Combahee River Collective Statement: Annotated
For this month’s Annotations series, we chose the Combahee River Collective Statement, written in 1977 and first published in Zillah Eisenstein, ed., Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism,...
The Famous and Forgotten Women of STEM
...opportunity for service that highlighted their deeply ambiguous position, as Ellen More explained in a 1989 paper. The “Doctress” Was In: Rebecca Lee Crumpler Liz Tracey March 9, 2020 The...
Women Nerds!
...The Chemist Whose Work Was Stolen from Her Liz Tracey February 26, 2020 The Black scientist Alice Ball helped develop a treatment for leprosy in the early twentieth century. But...
“I Have a Dream”: Annotated
For this month’s Annotations, we’ve taken Martin Luther King, Jr.’s iconic “I Have a Dream” speech, and provided scholarly analysis of its groundings and inspirations—the speech’s religious, political, historical and...
Plant of the Month: Cretan Rockrose
We are more than two years into a global pandemic that has claimed at least five and a half million lives, if not double or quadruple that. The staggering toll...