A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news.

• Lost and found report cards.
• Probably the most disturbing feminine hygiene ad ever (and as gender historians, we’ve seen many).
• Did you celebrate Independence Day? These suffragettes did not.
• 20th century author Anaïs Nin insisted on poetry in her erotic fiction.
• Depression-era “Desperation Pies.”
• A promising new turn in the racial history of The Daughters of the American Revolution?
• The sexy history of canoes.
• Sexual satisfaction sold over the counter.
• The pork industry sells sexism.
• Is breast cancer linked to cup size?
• Abraham Lincoln impeached?