A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Trans* history in Early America.
- Could this virus be good for you?
- History’s worst diet: the tapeworm.
- The controversial history of skim milk.
- The stalking of an American President.
- Capitalism plus dope equals genocide.
- Recreating ancient Pompeii with Legos.
- “Female husbands” in the 19th century.
- Cheap Scots and disappearing stereotypes.
- Historians sift through the ruins of Ferguson.
- Historians: stay away from Robert E. Lee’s papers.
- Huge demand for Laura Ingalls Wilder autobiography.
- Rethinking one of psychology’s most infamous experiments.
- The woman doctor question and 19th-century medical journals.
- Black history matters, so why is Wikipedia missing so much of it?
- The unfulfilled promise of the crock pot, an unlikely symbol of women’s equality.