Editors’ Note: We’re grateful to guest blogger Michael Durfee for adding to our ADHS conference reporting.  Below is the first of three...

In the fall of 2010 I designed and taught a graduate course called Drugs and Germs in Global History and Empire. The course began in the...

I suppose it’s an occupational hazard, but I find myself surprised when I hear women today—many of whom are self-declared...