Kim Kelly's posts

A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece for the Columbia Journalism Review about the way that my lifelong interest in heavy…

Exactly one year ago today, 5 million women in Spain went on strike.

As a bookish, curious kid growing up in a rural, working class area in the 90s, my life revolved around three…

The Wound Man (or Man of Wounds, depending on how you translate it in Fasciculus medicinae, the 1491 medical…

If you sat down to eat at any point and in any part of the U.S. in the 1800s, nothing on your plate was quite what…

Consider the ladybug. Our polka-dotted little friend spends its days munching aphids, climbing leaves, occasionally…

During World War I, far away from the lines of battle, the UK was faced with a different crisis. As thousands of…

“On an average day, visitors might encounter Dr. Couney’s Infant Incubators, where premature babies were kept alive…