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The Public Health Crises Plaguing America's Prisons
How the failure to protect incarcerated people from infections has led to preventable outbreaks—and how public health professionals can make a difference.
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The Relative Nature of “Fake News”: Woodrow Wilson's Fearmongering and the Battle for “Truth”
“Fake news” has become an all-too-familiar phrase since Donald Trump introduced it into the vernacular during his bid for the presidency in 2015-16. Yet the term has a long history, mostly under the name “propaganda.” Today the term is generally defined as...
Reading Disability in a Pair of Eighteenth Century Shoes: Mary Wise Farley, 1764
Everyday life for many in early America involved endless rounds of backbreaking labor, grueling travel into dense forests, across frozen rivers, or through putrid swamps, and the ever-present risk of illness, accident, and injury. How did early Americans cope...
