A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news

• The pirates of Lake Michigan.
• The 16th-century dance plague.
• Down Syndrome isn’t just cute.
• A history of blood transfusions.
• The “headhunters” of Coney Island.
• Help preserve history in just one click.
• The gendered world of 1950s job ads.
• Male sexual health in the Middle Ages.
• WWI home remedies and miracle cures.
• The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case.
• The abandoned wheelchairs of Minnesota.
• Prisoners are dying of 19th-century ailments.
• The history of racial moral panic over disease.
• Is it time to admit that we are in a new epoch?
• Stanley Kubrick’s photos of NYC in the 1940s.
• Mapping the age of every building in Manhattan.
• “Coffee Jerks”: an analysis on 50s and 60s coffee ads.
• Explore the world of historic New Orleans newspapers.
• When Republican’s were blue and Democrats were red.

*Feature Image: Wellcome Library, London, Artificial limb factory in Rome: six women working at benches, one using a sewing machine and one stitching the back of a full-length leg. Photograph, 1914/1918.