Ilustración de un desertor ejecutado por un pelotón de fusilamiento en el campamento federal de Alejandría durante la guerra civil estadounidense. Kean Collection/Getty Images

¿Es la ejecución por fusilamiento de Carolina del Sur la última recreación de la guerra de Secesión?

Carolina del Sur ha tenido problemas para conseguir suficientes inyecciones letales para las ejecuciones. Así que ha recurrido al pelotón de fusilamiento, utilizado por última vez en la guerra civil norteamericana.
No smell, no touch: People line up in Prague, Czech Republic, to get tested for the coronavirus. Getty/Gabriel Kuchta

Welcome to your sensory revolution, thanks to the pandemic

All of the senses have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic, not because the senses have changed, but because the world has, writes a sensory historian.
President Abraham Lincoln in 1865 and Vice President Joseph Biden in 2019. Library of Congress, photo Alexander Gardner; AP/Nati Harnik

Abraham Lincoln, Joe Biden and the politics of touch

The news is filled with stories about inappropriate touching by politicians. But touch by politicians was long important in the US, and Abraham Lincoln’s handshake helped engage and guide the nation.

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