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"The Trials of Madame Restell" is a compelling account of sex, gender relations, and abortion in pre-Civil War New York City. Syrett has a talent for bringing historical figures and the atmosphere of nineteenth-century New York City to vibrant life. You won't forget Madame Restell, Anthony Comstock, or any of the others who shaped the history of sexuality and gender in this era.
The biography of one of the most famous abortionists of the nineteenth century-and a story that has unmistakable parallels to the current war on reproductive rights
For forty years in the mid-nineteenth century, "Madame Restell," the nom de guerre of the most successful female physician in America, sold birth control medication, attended women during their pregnancies, delivered their children, and performed abortions in a series of clinics run out of her home in New York City. It was the abortions that made her famous. "Restellism" became the term her detractors used to indict her.
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
Huebner uses previously un- and understudied correspondence in the University of Alabama, State Historical Society of Missouri, and other special collections and archives to illustrate romantic and familial bonds between World War I soldiers and their loved ones. Some soldiers made it back to the US alive, and some did not. Huebner's work is especially evocative of how families waited years after the war was over to receive soldier's remains after their hasty burials in France in 1917 or 1918, prolonging their sorrow and ability to give those soldiers a proper goodbye.
Americans today harbor no strong or consistent collective memory of the First World War. Ask why they fought or what they accomplished, and "democracy" is the most likely if vague response.
The circulation of confusing or lofty rationales for intervention started from the moment President Woodrow Wilson secured a war declaration in April 1917. Yet amid those shifting justifications, Love and Death in the Great War argues, was a more durable and resonant one: Americans would fight for home and family.
Intervention came at a moment when arbiters of tradition regarded those very institutions-the white family in particular-under pressure from…
