Knitting Clio at HNN

This blog is run by Heather Munro Prescott, Professor of History, Central Connecticut State University. Ms. Prescott is the author of "The Morning After: A History of Emergency Contraception in the United States" (Rutgers 2011).

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  Jun 3, 2015
  

  Panel Discussion on Reproductive Rights after Griswold: A Fifty Year Retrospective

  by Knitting Clio at HNN

  The year 2015 marks the 50^th anniversary of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision Griswold v. Connecticut, in which the court overturned the constitutionality of the state’s law that had long restricted access to birth control and contraceptive information.
  

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  Nov 2, 2014
  

  Nurse Kaci Hickox is not Typhoid Mary

  by Knitting Clio at HNN

  Nurse Kaci Hickox is not Typhoid Mary, but that hasn't stopped some conservative critics from calling her a "Typhoid Mary wannabe."
  

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  Oct 16, 2014
  

  For Ebola, the Band Played On, and On, and On

  by Knitting Clio at HNN

  There are more similarities between the current Ebola outbreak and the early years of the AIDs epidemic than the mounting death toll