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Rima D. Apple is a professor emerita at UW–Wisconsin and has published extensively in women’s history as well as the history of medicine and nursing, home economics, and nutrition. Among her eight books are Perfect Motherhood: Science and Childrearin
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The Dey Time Recorder
Although it looks like it could belong in a casino, this device helped people make money much more reliably. Despite its whimsical appearance, it was all about work. The Industrial Revolution moved work into factories where, rather than responding to
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Chief Buffalo Goes to Washington
The following excerpt comes from Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America (UNC Press, 2022) by Michael John Witgen, which was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in History. Against lon

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