The story of Isaac Woodward Jr., a war veteran blinded from a police beating, became a visible symbol of the fruits of racial injustice and underlined that even WWII veterans were not immune to the violence simmering beneath the surface in postwar American society. Continue Reading “Wash your Hands, Officer X”[1]
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Bodies Without Pain: Examining Soldiers’ Wounds in Early Modern Russia
‘In considering historical bodies in pain, we open up a space to think again about sufferers of pain and trauma in our present-day lives.’ Continue Reading Bodies Without Pain: Examining Soldiers’ Wounds in Early Modern Russia