Love, Loss, and Lessons Learned from an Indomitable Woman in Medicine
How one young woman survived personal loss, sexism, and her own misogyny to become a trailblazer in academic medicine In 1961, when Sharon Hostler enrolled in medical school, just 6 percent of physicians were women. Against these inauspicious odds, she succeeded not only in becoming a medical doctor-she rose to the very top of the medical ......
Yankee Sullivan and the Hands That Built the Modern World
The globetrotting champion of the oppressed who shook his fist at the world in an era of profound change Prizefighter is the extraordinary saga of James "Yankee" Sullivan, who, in the first half of the nineteenth century, traveled the globe as a refugee, convict, laborer, and pugilist-and helped bring our modern world into being. Sullivan was ......
How enslaved workers provided the labor as well as the architectural expertise needed to build and sustain Mauritius Unlike most other sites of European colonialism, the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius had no indigenous population when the French set out to incorporate it into their imperial network. How, then, did its development differ from ......
How enslaved workers provided the labor as well as the architectural expertise needed to build and sustain Mauritius Unlike most other sites of European colonialism, the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius had no indigenous population when the French set out to incorporate it into their imperial network. How, then, did its development differ from ......
The definitive guidebook to celebrated and obscure cemeteries in and around the nation's capital Perfect for the "tombstone tourist," this guidebook to eleven cemeteries in and around the District of Columbia offers informative walking tours of these places of repose and reflection, mapping each cemetery's distinct character derived from the ......
The definitive guidebook to celebrated and obscure cemeteries in and around the nation's capital Perfect for the "tombstone tourist," this guidebook to eleven cemeteries in and around the District of Columbia offers informative walking tours of these places of repose and reflection, mapping each cemetery's distinct character derived from the ......
Gentrification and Resistance on the Early American Waterfront
How urban waterfront development in the early republic displaced working-class communities, creating lasting patterns of inequality and resistance In the early years of American nationhood, civic leaders undertook the construction of thousands of acres of man-made land along urban coastlines-a process known colloquially as "wharfing out," in ......
Gentrification and Resistance on the Early American Waterfront
How urban waterfront development in the early republic displaced working-class communities, creating lasting patterns of inequality and resistance In the early years of American nationhood, civic leaders undertook the construction of thousands of acres of man-made land along urban coastlines-a process known colloquially as "wharfing out," in ......
Italian Perspectives on the American and French Revolutions
How the American and French Revolutions were interpreted in the Italian states and how that understanding helped redefine the concept of revolution itself In Echoes of a Distant Republic, Anna Vincenzi explores the evolving meaning of "revolution" in the eighteenth century by surveying the reactions in Italy to the upheavals in America and later ......
