When women won the vote in the United States in 1920 they were still routinely barred from serving as jurors, but some began vigorous campaigns for a place in t
Seventeenth-century New Englanders were not as busy policing their neighbors’ behavior as Nathaniel Hawthorne or many historians of early America would have u
This work began as a history of Lyme disease. Looking in the historical records for places where this disease in now endemic, the author noted that witch afflic