• Are You Sitting Up Straight?

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  Laura Ansley | May 9, 2024

  In Beth Linker’s new book, she applies a disability studies lens to the history of posture.
• Super-X-Ear

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  Jaipreet Virdi | Feb 28, 2024

  An ad for the Wrist-Ear sent historian Jaipreet Virdi looking for the physical hearing aid itself.
• Medicalized Enslavement, Disability, and Southeast Asian Art

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  Mark Philip Bradley | Dec 15, 2023

  Get a peek inside the latest issue of the AHR.
• Spoiled Fruits

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  Jason A. Heppler | Nov 15, 2023

  Silicon Valley is often touted as eco-friendly today, yet the environmental history of the region tarnishes that reputation.

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• Staleness

  Jorden Pitt | Nov 9, 2023

  Ideals of masculinity influenced the treatment of US airmen’s psychological issues during World War I.
• Ronald L. Numbers (1942–2023)

  Judith Walzer Leavitt | Nov 1, 2023

  Renowned historian of science, medicine, and religion Ronald L. Numbers died at age 81 at his home in Madison, Wisconsin, on July 24, 2023.
• Sovereignty and Satellites

  Rebecca L. West | Oct 18, 2023

  Read about the 2023–24 recipients of the Fellowship in Aerospace History and the Fellowship in the History of Space Technology.
• Johnny Horizon Environmental Test Kit

  Sherri Sheu | Sep 28, 2023

  A 1970s children’s toy illustrates long-standing interest in—and lack of control over—our environment.
• When the Big Screen Isn’t Big Enough

  Alexandra F. Levy | Sep 14, 2023

  There’s a lot more to the story of the atomic bombs than Oppenheimer showed.

 

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