A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news.
- Let’s visit 1930s New York City – in color!
- Al Capone’s struggle with syphilis.
- Futuo! Cuss like a Roman.
- Ladies: You are the weaker sex.
- Ergonomic advice from the 17th century.
- American cowgirls, circa 1940s.
- The history of rolling papers.
- Capitalism cartoon from the 1950s.
- A cultural history of exhaustion.
- A Tudor ship’s secrets revealed.
- Ernest Hemingway’s reading list for young writers.
- The ghost town that used to be the most densely populated place in the world.
- Meet the female artists responsible for the American pin-up girl.
- New evidence in the death of a suffragette.
- That WWI Christmas Day Truce wasn’t all that friendly.
- 100 years of lost objects at Grand Central Station.