A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Cold War Nazis.
- A dose of witchcraft.
- The history of candy corn.
- The history of funeral food.
- Man and Mummy: a romance.
- The doctor who starved her patients to death.
- Did Bach’s wife write some of his best-loved works?
- Alfred Kinsey and the re-making of Jewish sexuality.
- 10 horrifying demons and spirits from Japanese folklore.
- Charles Barkley and the plague of “unintelligent” Blacks.
- Payments begin for eugenics victims (but there’s a hitch).
- The psych ward for people who broke into the White House.
- How useful is a feminist approach to history for historians?
- The man who exposed Canada’s experiments on aboriginals.
- The Lake Michigan disaster that killed more people than the Titanic.