A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news.
- Old Soviet playgrounds are terrifying.
- Is he cheating? A 1950s guide.
- An interracial WWII romance.
- Have you ever heard Helen Keller speak?
- Plague and photography in Colonial Burma.
- The Oxford English Dictionary needs your help to solve a mystery.
- The secret to life is – caffeine?
- DNA reveals surprising results about the Minoan culture.
- Never-before-seen photographs of the Romanov family.
- Japanese mayor says WWII comfort women “necessary.”
- A nineteenth-century hearing aid.
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg says Roe v. Wade flawed.
- What can The Young Ones teach us about Thatcherism and sexism?
- Assata Shakur and a brief history of the FBI’s Most Wanted lists.
- Civil Rights cold cases.
- And finally . . . women’s suffrage and cat memes.