A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The history of “thug.”
- Advice columns from the 1690s.
- Celebrating 85 years of Nancy Drew.
- When Swedes called in gay to work.
- Nazi summer camps in 1930s America?
- The weirdest day of Nixon’s presidency.
- Oldest evidence of breast cancer uncovered?
- People used to work inside hamster wheels.
- The letters Martha Washington didn’t burn.
- Ukraine separatists rewrite 1930s famine history.
- A surprisingly interesting history of postal uniforms.
- How gay porn helped build the gay rights movement.
- That time when Congress planned to shoot rain from the sky.
- Why museums should be safe spaces to discuss why #BlackLives Matter.
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[…] means by which to avoid your exercise routine, why not click on over to Nursing Clio for their Sunday Morning Medicine round-up, featuring 85 years of Nancy Drew (including a shout-out to University of Wisconsin historian Nan […]
Someone had bought a copy of Nancy Drew for a friend recently, and it sparked the thought about it’s amazing the longevity of some of the classics. To think they’re still being purchased for today’s Children; inspiring and captivating.
Awesome.