A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news.
- Coffee, the Viagra of the 17th century.
- Punishing children in Victorian England.
- Did Jane Austin novels cure WWI depression?
- LGBT history? There’s an app for that.
- Clowns have a history of being scary.
- How to cure a bubble boy.
- A brief history of men’s underwear (get it, brief?)
- ‘Italian Schindler’ was a myth?
- The last person on earth to get smallpox.
- A horrifying tale of an 18th-century cesarean operation.
- French soldiers secretly filmed prison camp life during WWII.
- Does a 19th century painting tell a rare story of black life in the Antebellum South?
- Conservative flyers on disability initiatives include . . . wait for it . . . fake braille.