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- Allie Penn discusses the role of nurse anethetists during surgeries throughout history (Nursing Clio).
- Women contributed significantly to the discovery of antibiotics ; Natalie Shibley uncovers their role in the race (Lady Science).
- James Marten and Caroline E. Janney's new book, Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America, provides important scholarship about Civil War memory and life in the late 19th century (UGA Press)
- Benoit Morenne uncovers the mystery surrounding the Lee Street Riot of Louisiana (Atlas Obscura).
- The role of Black women in the Civil War is explored by Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr. (Black Perspectives).
- Debra Freeman writes about the legacy of Black pitmasters in Virginia (Southern Foodways Alliance).
- Adam Xavier McNeil discusses the importance of narrating stories of Black life in #VastEarlyAmerica (Insurrect!).
- Manteo's World: Native American Life in Carolina's Sound Country Before and After the Lost Colony, by Helen C. Rountree, offers an important introduction to the lives of Native Americans in North Carolina before and after English settlers (UNC Press).
- Lucie Levine explores the long history of "Child Allowances" in the United States (JSTOR Daily).