A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The complex history of pain.
- Beauty spots and French Pox.
- AIDS and African American History.
- President Ford and the tamale incident.
- The history behind General Tso and his chicken.
- Sex and the single man in late medieval England.
- The singular challenges facing black, deaf families.
- Making the case for teaching history in med school.
- Thomas Jefferson conducted smallpox vaccine trials.
- What did soldiers eat during the Revolutionary War?
- Forgotten history: When MLK’s mother was murdered.
- Smithsonian seeks objects to document Japanese American internment.
- Nancy Reagan turned down Rock Hudson’s plea for help before his death.
- Meet the witches, lesbian separatists, and other brave feminists of the 60s and 70s.