So, this week we start an extended series about the history of medicine. We start in Ancient Egypt and move around the Mediterranean finally ending up in Colonial America. Along the way we discuss the idea of bodily humors, the principal of extractive therapy, as well as the naissance of scientific approaches to medicine. We also discuss the critical and often unwilling role marginalized people played in the creation of medical knowledge.
Join us as we discuss to differences and similarities between the H1N1 pandemic that swept the world after the Great War and the current...
This week we delve into a topic we've been promising to cover for some time, the Second Great Awakening. This was the religious movement...
This week we continue our survey of American History by discussing the period often referred to as Jim Crow America. We cover how to...