A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news

• Nazi bride school.
• A haunting WWII memorial.
• 1948 photo essay of a “career girl.”
• A history of knives, forks, and spoons.
• What’s it like to live in a house museum?
• Did WWI lead to a female drinking culture?
• 1975 “Welcome to New York City” pamphlet.
• Rare photos of black life during the New Deal.
• “Poop Pills” are a thing, and they are important.
• Study finds unequal pain relief in emergency rooms.
• The time a US city dropped a bomb on its own residents.
• Finally, kids from the past doing Halloween better than you.

*”Hold Up Your End” courtesy of Cushing/Whitney Medical Library. Historical Library. Yale University