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The Man Who Suffered a Brain Injury – And Helped to Change Medicine — History is Now Magazine, Podcasts, Blog and Books | Modern International and American history

Phineas Gage in the time after his accident. Phineas Gage is perhaps the most famous neurological patient in modern history, called one of the “great medical curiosities of all time” and a “living part of medical folklore.” Malcolm MacMillan of the University of Melbourne records that two-thirds of introductory psychology textbooks cover Gage and his […]

Sir Barnes Neville Wallis: The Visionary Scientist Who Played a Key Role in World War 2 — History is Now Magazine, Podcasts, Blog and Books | Modern International and American history

Barnes Neville Wallis. Early life and education Wallis’s early life provided the foundation for his eventual career in engineering. His father, Charles Wallis, was a doctor, but young Barnes developed an early fascination with mechanical objects, much to his father’s frustration. After attending Christ’s Hospital school in Sussex, where he displayed a knack for mathematics […]

What are the Old Hill Figures Dotted Around Britain? — History is Now Magazine, Podcasts, Blog and Books | Modern International and American history

The Uffington White Horse. Source: World Wind, available here. The description of this activity has been termed “leucippotomy” for the carving of horses and “gigantotomy” for giants (there are currently four of this kind in Britain). Whether these adopted terms are intended to be applied seriously is debatable since they do not appear in the […]

Family Separations in U.S. Immigration History: A New Issue, or as American as Baseball and Apple Pie? — History is Now Magazine, Podcasts, Blog and Books | Modern International and American history

A teacher, Mary R. Hyde, and students at the Carlisle Indian Training School. Source: here and here. At least two years before 2016, large numbers of Central American families, nearly all from the Northern Triangle countries of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador began to arrive in walking caravans at the Texas Border.  Well before Donald […]