A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news.
- Kosher lube is a thing now!
- Excellent salad advice from 1699.
- Disability activism through beer?
- The female fighter pilots of WWII.
- How depression went mainstream.
- The delightful history of paper dolls.
- The summer of ’69 in New York City.
- How a wife should undress, circa 1930s.
- 1905 film captures newly-opened NYC subway.
- 20 gorgeous travel posters from the early-20th century.
- South Carolina botches a tuberculosis outbreak.
- Sanford, Florida has a racist past (way before Zimmerman).
- 1960s celebrities tell teens how to be feminine.
- Washington DC could have looked very different.
- You might want to avoid having sex with creatures from the future.
- And finally . . . John Lennon and The Fonz.