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

• Historical artifacts missing from the National Archives!
• The earliest surviving photographic self-portrait.
• Want to help crack the world’s oldest undeciphered writing?
• Is intersectionality an elitist concept?
• Should cheerleading be considered a sport for health reasons?
• Punk Rock archive in Denver.
• AIM activist and actor, Russell Means has passed away.
• Transcript of 1944 Bretton Woods Conference found.
• Napoleon and the world’s most disastrous wardrobe malfunction.
• Geneticists breach ethical taboo.
• Listen to Edison’s very first audio recording!
• History’s most infamous surgeon.
• Cool! 19th century fire extinguishers!
• Are the British bad at washing their hands?
• The witches of Halloween’s past.