A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The historical novel turns 200.
- How coffee fueled the Civil War.
- The invention of the heterosexual.
- The tragic and heroic women of WWI.
- World’s oldest erotic graffiti unearthed.
- Brides, booze, and mid-century pulp fiction.
- The battle over Germany’s last Lenin statue.
- Big Tobacco invented the Type A personality.
- How 911 became America’s emergency number.
- The dirtiest presidential letters you will ever read.
- The history of America’s obsession with Tiki decor.
- The whimsical way med students learn about the body.
- The forgotten history of America’s largest slave auction.
- The oldest case of Down Syndrome from medieval France.
- Beds not bombs: The history of anti-nuclear medical protests.
- Were African Americans denied vanilla ice cream in the Jim Crow South?