Tag: Connected

6 New Beach Reads from SUP

A novel, a genre-bender, and some quick 100-pagers for your summer reading lists.

The Award-Winning Titles of 2014

An exhaustive roundup of this year’s honors and accolades.

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Out this month:  Connected: How Trains, Genes, Pineapples, Piano Keys, and a Few Disasters Transformed Americans at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century | Steven Cassedy Connected  focuses on the decades from the end of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth to 

The Unjustly Libeled Moustache

At the dawn of the twentieth century it had become "established hearsay" that facial hair was fertile breeding ground for infectious organisms, particularly tuberculosis. The stubble we may now take for granted was once under a volley of attacks from legislators and public health activists