A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news.
- Syphilis and prosthetic noses.
- Early-twentieth century crusade against kissing.
- The ideal woman circa 1926.
- A new SARS-like virus?
- Nineteenth century Mormon courtship.
- A very fun time-lapse drawing of the history of music.
- A look at the early poetry of Sylvia Plath.
- A Civil War female surgeon?
- A feminist reads Friedan for the first time.
- Transgender students and college health plans.
- Eugenics and imagining future human bodies.
- U.S. fertility rates at an all-time low.
- 1920s Kodachrome film of flirting women.
- Mice are not good test subjects for human disease.
- A preservationist in search of historic playground photos.
- James Baldwin in exile.