dr. erin n. bush

historian of u.s. crime & punishment. digital research methods.

In Brief: Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death

Since interest in the Nutshells has continued to grow, I thought I’d do a brief roundup of my contribution to recent web articles and blog posts (includes photos I’ve shared and links): Wellcome Collection Blog: “Finding the Truth in a Nutshell,” by Erin N. Bush Fangirl Nation: Mistress of Death Interview with Erin N. Bush Mental […]

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From The Secretary’s Handbook, 1965

I was cleaning out my home office and I found my grandmother’s Secretary’s Handbook from the 1960s. While I am studying gender and crime in the late 19th century, I tend to always have a soft spot for popular culture and historic text books and how-tos. I wrote my Master’s thesis on how cookbooks conveyed […]

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Death in Diorama

The draft of my site is up. I’ve been poking around the blogs today and I’m really looking forward to the presentations tomorrow. Thank you to those who have continuously commented here and have given feedback over the course of the semester. Your talents, insight and opinions have been most helpful. Have a great summer […]

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Comments, Week of May 3

I commented on Kellie’s project, Carrie’s project and Laura’s progress.

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Go Ask Alice

If the soundtrack to Zayna’s road to her final project draft presentation included “Truckin’,” my theme this week was “White Rabbit.” After two evenings of chasing unfortunate rabbits to a dead end, I’m working my way to something that is really do-able. Nothing really major has changed from my design presentation except that I have […]

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Comments, Week of April 26th

Commented on Zayna’s final.

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