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The Fairer Sex Upends an Unfair Fair
How Women Inventors Revolutionized the Home By Creating Their Own Space at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition
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Olivia Campbell
February 2023
Keen Mind, Remarkable Beauty
As usual, 18th C. scientific translator Claudine Picardet's work was initially credited to her male colleagues.
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Olivia Campbell
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October 2022
She's a Witch!
When suspicion falls on midwife Margaret Jones, she becomes the first victim of the Massachusetts Bay Colony's witch trials
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Olivia Campbell
August 2022
Aristocrat, Adventurer, Activist, Author
The unlikely life of Lady Florence Dixie
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Olivia Campbell
July 2022
Abortion as Healthcare Throughout History
A reading list of pieces I've written about the history of reproductive autonomy.
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Olivia Campbell
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June 2022
Dr. Hamilton: Traveling Physician, “Female” Husband
Considering quack doctors and trans history in Georgian England through the case of Charles Hamilton
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Olivia Campbell
May 2022
Fighting Colonialism with Food
María Orosa, Filipino food technologist and freedom fighter
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Olivia Campbell
April 2022
The Chemist Who Exposed a Cancer Cure Fraud
Alma LeVant Hayden, the first Black scientist at the FDA, busts the Krebiozen scam
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Olivia Campbell
March 2022
Paperback Publication Day!
Women in White Coats, now in paperback
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Olivia Campbell
February 2022
The Radical Inclusivity of Early Women's Medical Schools
Empowered with MDs, women of color often helped their own communities.
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Olivia Campbell
January 2022
A Magic Miner & Mineralogist
The mysterious Martine Bertereau, Baroness de Beausoleil.
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Olivia Campbell
December 2021
A Superlative Surgeon in the Segregated South
Dorothy Lavinia Brown accumulates an impressive collection of firsts.
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Olivia Campbell
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