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

• Wanted: Adventurous woman to act as surrogate for Neanderthal baby.
• Hidden history of Washington D.C.
• The plague has staying power.
• What are the ten most important documents in U.S. history? Submit your nominations now.
• Gene study hopes to settle debate over origin of European Jews.
• Jim Crow pay discrimination among black and white teachers.
• Your genetic map may not be anonymous.
• Life in the London Underground in 1940.
• FDA approves first new IUD in 12 years!
• Medieval graffiti. 
• How not to run a Boston Tea Party historic tour.
• Can children grow out of autism?
• DNA tests reveal hair and eye color of Nazi prison victims.
• What does it mean to be a woman in a STEM’s field?
• The menu from Lincoln’s second inaugural ball.
• Breathtaking hand-painted color slides from the Russian Revolution.