A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- CSI: Alexander.
- How ebola research has faltered.
- Remembering Soviet space dogs.
- When 18th-century doctors fight.
- Bestiality in the time of smallpox.
- The cost of death in the 19th century.
- Military historians are freaking out – again.
- Disability rights and anti-choice legislators.
- Early Wonder Woman, feminism, and bondage.
- How fashion helped defeat 18th-century anti-vaxxers.
- What it was like to be gay in the Civil Rights Movement.
- How the auto industry invented the crime of jaywalking.
- The 19th-century doctor who championed hand-washing.
- Pharmacy in medieval Islam and the history of drug addiction.
- Can the podcast, Serial, tell us something about the perils of doing history?