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

• Plague riddled pigeons.
• What did Gettysburg smell like?
• Airport food used to be a big deal.
• Remember the Sand Creek Massacre.
• Mass imprisonment and public health.
• The hidden history of queer country music.
• Does feminism leave the disabled behind?
• Uncovering the heart of Chopin – literally.
• Finding religion in the history of U.S. sexuality.
• What schizophrenia can teach us about ourselves.
• When Thanksgiving turkeys used to walk to Boston.
• Women having a terrible time at parties in art history.
• Meet the woman who led 7,000 men against the Nazis.
• 98-year-old woman fights to overturn McCarthy-era conviction.

*Feature image courtesy of Wellcome Photo Library, Wellcome Images: A baker and his wife weighing their baby, representing an advertisement for “Boulangère” chicory. Chromolithograph by L. Olivié, ca. 1890.