A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Vintage Vegas!
- ‘Till sickness do us part…
- The lost village of New York City.
- Maternal deaths falling worldwide.
- Polio is now an international emergency.
- Chasing death camp guards with new tools.
- What is the C-section rate of your hospital?
- The racist roots of black comic book villains.
- 7 movie monsters that represent Communism.
- Nation’s oldest LGBT bookstore closes its doors.
- The tensions over preserving slave trading sites.
- Personal remembrances of the Kent State shootings.
- How playing with dolls helped lead to desegregation.
- The enslaved grave robber of Georgia Medical College.
- Descendants of Chinese laborers reclaim railroad history.
- The history of 19th-century patent examiners is not boring.
- Young feminists rediscover 1970s-style masturbation workshops.
- A Mother’s Day treat: 1920s Chicago children dressed up as adorable little flowers.