by Ann Beach | Oct 21, 2026 | Medicine
President Thomas Jefferson commissioned the Corps of Discovery (what we now call the Lewis and Clark Expedition) in 1803 to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase and to find a direct water route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. It was an...
by Ann Beach | Oct 9, 2026 | Medicine
History and classic literature are full of stories of people dying of broken hearts. It is one of the most romantic ideas in storytelling; someone’s love is so powerful their lover dies without it. For example, Catherine Earnshaw (Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte)...
by Ann Beach | Sep 24, 2026 | Medicine
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was one of the most famous writers of the 1800s. Her novel Aurora Leigh and her book of poems, Sonnets From the Portuguese (including How Do I Love Thee?) still resonate. She lived 55 years (1806-1861) and spent much of her life at home as...
by Ann Beach | Sep 1, 2026 | Medicine
Imagine you’re a liberated woman at the turn of the last century (1890-1915). It’s now allowed for you to travel without an escort and you and some of your friends even have (gasp!) jobs. You are comfortable traveling on public conveyances like buses and trams. You...
by Ann Beach | Aug 6, 2026 | Medicine
Annelise Blanchette, a biologist working on her PhD in ecology and evolutionary biology, was deep into her research on lead levels and mockingbirds in New Orleans when the Covid pandemic changed everything. She and her team were locating mockingbird nests, trapping...
