A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The strange dating games of 1914.
- The evolution of the doctor’s office.
- The men who built the Berlin Wall.
- Dress designs lost in the Holocaust.
- Are your medical records top secret?
- How Kodak set the skin-tone standard.
- On chewing gum and the history of surgery.
- Meet the world’s foremost bedpan collector.
- It’s official: Mormon founder had forty wives.
- That time when we almost nuked North Carolina.
- A city that’s painting its streets with historical creeks.
- Researchers study poisoned Michiganders 40 years later.
- A history of religious exemptions for children’s medical care.
- How 19th-century doctors used photography for difficult cases.
- Read the uncensored “suicide letter” the FBI sent to Martin Luther King Jr.