Vigorous Reforms TRLD Recorded when the events were

Recorded when the events were fresh in their narrators' memories

The Moving Continents

and takes a "how-to" approach

Comet Madness reveals how humans confront the unknown

The authors bring a remarkable combination of deep

Vigorous Reforms TRLD Recorded when the events wereNineteenth century America saw profound changes in the ways people viewed their bodies, their health, and their corporeal connection to their environments. Though much of the writing about bodies was produced by men, Vigorous Reforms focuses on the understudied literary history of how women came to understand physicality and its connection to their everyday lives. The introduction of physical education allowed women to conceive their own and others'