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A Crisis of Caring: The Humanities and Our Health

WEBThis virtual, interdisciplinary conference sought to consider the ways that knowledge drawn from humanities disciplines and methodologies can inform and help …

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Every Man His Own Doctor: OR, The Poor Planter’s …

WEBAs printing expanded in colonial America in the 1700s, home medical guides offering such remedies became bestsellers. Two guides are excerpted here, one published in Virginia …

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Loss, Grief, and the Humanities in the Time of Pandemic

WEBThe humanities demonstrate we are never alone in our experience, but are always caught up in recurring and collective cycles of life, death, and suffering. 3. The …

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Individual Rights vs. Social Responsibilities in a Pandemic

WEBOn Friday, October 1, 2021, the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 crossed the 700,000 mark, surpassing the 675,000 deaths from the influenza pandemic of 1918 and 1919 over a …

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In Our Image: Artificial Intelligence and the Humanities

WEBThe In Our Image conference (held April 7–22, 2021) examined issues surrounding the integration of artificial intelligence through a series of virtual …

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7. Health, in IDEAS, Becoming American: The British …

WEB"A very desperate disease." The most dreaded disease in colonial America was smallpox. Introduced by Europeans, smallpox was one of the most virulent killers of Native …

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A Crisis of Caring: The Humanities and Our Health

WEBChisomo Kalinga. Chisomo Kalinga is a Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities Fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh. Her current research …

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Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in …

WEBBy Sharon T. Strocchia (NHC Fellow, 1998–99; 2015–16). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. From the publisher’s description: In Renaissance Italy women …

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Remaking the American Patient: How Madison Avenue …

WEBBy Nancy Tomes (NHC Fellow, 1999–00; 2022–23). Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2016. From the publisher’s description: In a work that spans the …

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Links to Online Resources

WEBGeneral Religion and the Founding of the American Republic http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/religion.html Superb online exhibition from the …

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Global Health in Africa: An Historical Perspective

WEBGlobal Health in Africa: An Historical Perspective. Neil Kodesh (Professor of History and Director, African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison) …

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The American Jewish Experience in the Twentieth Century: …

WEBon their government and for failing to do more to rescue Jewish lives. Others sadly conclude that, given the realities of America's wartime priorities coupled with widespread domestic …

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The COVID-19 Oral History Project National Humanities Center

WEBThe National Humanities Center launched its COVID-19 Oral History Project in 2021 to capture and preserve experiences of a unique time in our medical and social history. …

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The Social Gospel and the Progressive Era

WEBThus, the vertical integration of American industry in the last three decades of the nineteenth century wrought monumental changes in the structure of both American …

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Rachel Carson and the Awakening of Environmental Consciousness

WEBIn the summer of 1962 the prestigious New Yorker magazine published excerpts from a sensational new book by Rachel Carson, America's bestselling science writer and a …

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Slave Drivers, Overseers, Enslavement, African American Identity: …

WEBOn large plantations, the person who directed the daily work of the slaves was the overseer, usually a white man but occasionally an enslaved black man—a "driver"—promoted to …

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Environmental Justice for All

WEBOn October 27, 1991, Summit delegates adopted 17 “ Principles of Environmental Justice .”. These principles were developed as a guide for organizing, networking, and relating to …

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Donald W. Livingston “Hume and America”

WEB5 written to show that this could happen.17 Further, Hume argued that the republican idiom of liberty is immanent in most European states. Property and the rule of law are about as …

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Nancy Tomes, 1999–2000; 2022–23 National Humanities Center

WEBFellowship Work Summary, 2022–23 . Nancy Tomes drafted 40,000 words of a short book titled Panic Nation: A Viral History.She refocused her original project idea—the history of …

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How Slavery Affected

WEBThis advertisement for a teenaged boy who ran away is compelling on many levels. In this context, however, the last lines of the ad are most relevant: “Captains of vessels and …

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