Here is a guest post I wrote for the wonderful history-of-medicine blog Nursing Clio
I am trying hard not to be faithful. I am trying to keep my options…
When Isadora Duncan’s mother was pregnant with the dancer, she could eat only iced oysters and iced…
The problem of hunger rarely plays a significant role in food blogs. The genre inclines toward fantasies of…
Is Blogging Scholarship? A provocative question for a blog title, but not the deepest, which perhaps is…
My new book, Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America, is now available for…
I fell in love with Charity and Sylvia, the subjects of my last book. And…
When I decided to expand my research from a focus on Paris to include Capri as…
Thelma Ellen Wood was stupendously tall, sexually irresistible, and a wonderful cook with a propensity…
After an hour in Naples, I had dreams of returning to rent an apartment for…