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

• Handy tips for your annual James K. Polk party.
• How WWII GI’s shaped Britain’s view of America.
• Colonial bones and Hurricane Sandy.
• New Deal utopian town turns 75.
• Cave from Island of the Blue Dolphins located.
• Archeologists uncover Europe’s oldest prehistoric town.
• The health risks of Hurricane Sandy.
• The drug-induced hallucinations of Dr. Oliver Sacks.
• An important (and huge) digitization project underway in New Orleans. 
• A cool chart depicting  the history of film!
• Radiolab shows us how not to conduct an oral history.
• The American Antiquarian Society turns 200.
• The day the Mississippi ran backwards.
• Adventures in Feministory.
• A new approach to stem mumps outbreaks.
• A controversial “cure” for multiple sclerosis.