America’s smallpox eradication has its roots in 18th-century Boston.
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18th-Century Surgery
Colonial medicine is not for the faint of heart. Sharon Cotner describes the philosophies and practices.
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Hidden in Plain Sight
What’s lost is found, safe in a place it never left. Scott Stephenson describes a rediscovery.
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Zooarchaeology
Zooarchaeologist Joanne Bowen decodes 400-year-old leftovers.
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Pirates of the Atlantic
Piracy is equal parts economics and adventure. Author Carson Hudson describes the lust for treasure.
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Migrating Cultures
Foreign tools and family treasures came to America like stowaways in immigrants’ baggage. Trish Balderson retraces migration’s story through museum objects.
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