A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Horseless carriages of the 1820s.
- Illustrations from the the Soviet Hobbit.
- The history of the prisoner’s “last meal.”
- The 8 types of drunken women, circa 1795.
- Victorian teacups with built-in mustache guards.
- The one true cause of all disease (all 52 of them).
- Masturbation advice for girls in 1918 (Hint: It’s bad).
- A creepy old photo I.D. card for a ventriloquist dummy.
- The Black 14: Race, Politics, Religion and Wyoming Football .
- Before there was PTSD, there was “Combat Fatigue Irritability.”
- “No Race Suicide in Utah!”: Eugenics, race, and a 1907 postcard.
- And finally, 14 cats from the 1800s who are having a way worse day than you are.