A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- When cowboys wore pink.
- How humans created cats.
- American boys and their guns.
- Cakewalks were not actually a cakewalk.
- A history of Hollywood’s publicity racket.
- A map of the weirdest sex laws in the U.S.
- An early-20th century anti-coffee ad campaign.
- Read to Win the War: 13 vintage library posters.
- The “curing” of Australia’s first transgender man.
- Don’t look to history for valuable pregnancy advice.
- 18 stunning photos from National Geographic’s history.
- Britain posthumously pardons gay “father of computing.”
- 9 beautiful handmade Christmas cards sent by WWI soldiers.
- Planning a dinner party? Better brush up on your 1940s table manners.