A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The art of smallpox.
- Acupuncture in Victorian England.
- Are gerbils to blame for the Black Death?
- The strange history of Iceland’s beer ban.
- The truth about the Sound of Music family.
- The SNCC teenagers who changed America.
- The typeface that sparked a 100-year mystery.
- A history of neuro disorders in the White House.
- The strange history of The Anarchist’s Cookbook.
- New editions of Pipi Longstocking will be less racist.
- How Oregon’s second largest city vanished in a day.
- A fascinating history of roller skating and civil rights.
- Unearthed letter reveals Freud’s thoughts on gay people.
- 16 posters warning men about the dangers of women’s suffrage.