A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Before Stonewall.
- Vintage black glamour.
- Painkillers and pregnant women.
- Images from the 1964 World’s Fair.
- Photos from a 1953 polygamist raid.
- Mapping disease in the 19th century.
- Why the Ludlow Massacre still matters.
- The erotics of shaving in Victorian Britain.
- The utopian origins of restroom symbols.
- The hatpin peril of the early 20th century.
- When the world thought California was an island.
- Do you have what it takes to be a 1950s secretary?
- Fineable offenses for 19th century Harvard students.
- Could a virus restore natural hearing in deaf people?
- Researchers find new importance in Y chromosome.
- A modern-day disease might have a link to TB and leprosy.