A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The return of rickets.
- The evolution of death.
- 50 essential feminist films.
- The Edwardian Eugenics Society.
- Victorian England’s Cannibal Club.
- 50 years of motherhood in photos.
- The new(er) science of blaming moms.
- Vintage photos of NYC’s 1970s punk scene.
- Beware gents! A pair of mantraps circa 1780s!
- 31 historical (and adorable) slang terms for sex.
- What did disability look like in the 19th century?
- Ladies who limped: Victorian fashion at its weirdest.
- A new Korean War memorial is every historian’s nightmare.
- How turbans helped some African Americans in the Jim Crow era.
- Which country has the most attractive people? Let’s ask a 19th-century doctor.