A review of American Studies lecturer Sarah Gold McBride’s new book, Whiskerology: The Culture of Hair in Nineteenth-Century America (Harvard University Press, 2025) appeared in the New Yorker on July 21, 2025. The book is a surprising history of human hair in nineteenth-century America, where length, texture, color, and coiffure became powerful indicators of race, gender, and national belonging.
You can read the review here.