“History gives answers only to those who know how to ask questions.” – Jaho Holborn, Germna-American historian (1902-1969)
Places Worth Visiting
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I Took a Ghost Tour Inside The Met 👻
Read more: I Took a Ghost Tour Inside The Met 👻Museum tours, especially ghost tours, were something I had always seen in movies but never had the chance to experience myself. Ever since I started researching, I have become extremely fascinated by a variety of topics, and ghosts have been one of them. Evie, the tour guide, was extremely kind and attentive. I first reached…
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Mind of Serial Killer: When Curiosity Starts to Feel Uncomfortable
Read more: Mind of Serial Killer: When Curiosity Starts to Feel Uncomfortable(Slide to see all pics) I think there is a fine line between being curious and glorifying this stuff, and I don’t know where that line is or if we true crime lovers sometimes cross it. I have been watching true crime for many years. Recently, I randomly decided to consume it a bit less…
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Love & Fury: More Than Just Posters
Read more: Love & Fury: More Than Just PostersThe Love and Furry exhibit was recommended as an extra credit opportunity in one of my history classes. Before visiting the exhibit, we had learned about Gaetan Dugas, often known as “Patient Zero,” and had also discussed a recurring historical pattern: when a new disease or a poorly understood behavior emerges, societies often associate it with a…
Articles & Research
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The First Vaccine Was Tested on a Child: How Edward Jenner Changed Medicine Forever
Read more: The First Vaccine Was Tested on a Child: How Edward Jenner Changed Medicine ForeverOne of the earliest vaccine experiments was tested on a child. Edward Jenner wanted to prove that vaccination worked after observing that milkmaids who were getting infected with cowpox, rarely developed smallpox. Jenner wanted to test his theory that cowpox was somehow giving people immunity from smallpox. He tested the experiment on an eight-year-old boy.…
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When Removing Blood Was Considered Healing: How Bloodletting Shaped George Washington’s Final Hours
Read more: When Removing Blood Was Considered Healing: How Bloodletting Shaped George Washington’s Final HoursImagine being extremely ill and believing the only way to survive was to let out nearly half of your blood. That was George Washington’s fate in December 1799. George Washington died on December 14, 1799, following a brief but severe throat infection. In the hours leading up to his death, his physicians followed humoral medical…
Book Reviews
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The Children Standing in the Aftermath: A Review of The Last Breath By Kimberly Belle
Read more: The Children Standing in the Aftermath: A Review of The Last Breath By Kimberly BelleWARNING: This review contains spoilers. The Last Breath sat on my shelf for a while until I finally decided that I should start reading the books I already had before buying more. The last part hasn’t been working so well. The themes that stood out to me from this story were denial, forgiveness, and more…
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The Mad Wife: Interesting Themes, Misleading Genre
Read more: The Mad Wife: Interesting Themes, Misleading GenreWARNING: This review contains spoilers. I recently finished The Mad Wife by Meagan Church, and I have mixed feelings about it. The book started off extremely slow, so much that I almost stopped reading it several times. It is marketed as a thriller, but I don’t think that label accurately reflects the reading experience. Going…
YouTube Episode Footnotes
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S01E005 – They Drilled Holes Into Human Skulls… And People Survived (Footnotes)
Trepanation is one of the oldest known surgical procedures. Archaeological evidence shows that people were creating openings in the human skull thousands of years before modern surgery. What Is Trepanation? Trepanation is the practice of creating an opening in the skull by drilling, scraping, or cutting away part of the bone. Trepanation Around the World…
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S01E004 – They Wore Masks… and Still Died: The History of Plague Doctors (Footnotes)
The Black Death was one of the deadliest pandemics in history. During the 14th century, it killed millions of people. At the time, no one understood what really caused the disease or how it was spreading. The Black Death Victims could develop fever, severe pain, dark spots on their skins, and swollen lymph nodes, usually…
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S01E003 – They Cut Hair… and Limbs: The History of Barber Surgeons (Footnotes)
For centuries, barber-surgeons performed many of the hands-on medical procedures that physicians often did not, including bloodletting, tooth extraction, wound care, and amputations. Religious Origins Some of the earliest barber-surgeons worked in medieval monasteries, where they maintained tonsures and gradually took on minor surgical duties. Tooth Extraction Before anesthesia and modern dentistry, barber-surgeons removed teeth…
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