A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news.
- Robots can fix your lady parts.
- Would you like to buy Hemingway’s racist telegrams?
- Was Jane Austin the first game theorist?
- Newly revealed letters give insight into a young J.D. Salinger.
- How coffee changed the course of history.
- Judging Hollywood’s best figure circa 1931.
- Historical reflections on palliative medicine.
- VD as the “Mad Dog” of disease.
- Did Charles Darwin hold the key to a happy marriage?
- 19th-century India in pictures.
- Sexy Candyland?
- Effects of desegregation bussing battles still linger in Boston.
- Old newspapers shed new light on Emmitt Till murder.
- Want to live in an old insane asylum? (Perhaps the coolest example of mixed-use historic preservation ever!)