A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The giant war tubas of WWI.
- The secret history of knock-knock jokes.
- Miserable 19th-century marriages: a list!
- The time Napoleon was attacked by rabbits.
- The woman behind Women’s History Month.
- Tracking the history of rural racial segregation.
- The lost history of New Orleans’ two Chinatowns.
- How a black community pioneered paramedic treatment.
- How Black America rallied to stop the film, Birth of a Nation.
- The history of Daylight Saving Time via historical newspaper articles.
- The Punjabi-Sikh-Mexican American community fading into history.
- The man who discovered thiamine (and the chickens who died for it).
- When MIT fed children radioactive cereal and called it a “science club.”