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Infectious diseases killed Victorian children at alarming rates — their novels highlight the fragility of public health today

Modern medicine has enabled citizens of wealthy, industrialized nations to forget that children once routinely died in shocking numbers. Teaching...

Andrea Kaston Tange

October has long been associated with ghosts – from ancient Celtic festivals to ward off restless spirits after harvest time to the modern standby...

Great-grandmothers. We all have them. But most of us will never know them except through glimpses of fading bits of paper: sepia photographs,...