A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Hair care in 1918.
- Young, black, and Victorian.
- Black women who changed history.
- Gay semiotics in 1970s San Francisco.
- Early modern eyebrow interpretations.
- Japanese American resistance during WWII.
- What happened to America’s first Muslims?
- The Scottish spy who stole China’s tea empire.
- Did Mr. Darcy make his fortune from slavery?
- Museum asks visitors to listen to the buildings.
- The Los Angeles disaster that killed 600 people.
- The many faces of mothers in Georgian England.
- How one woman eventually founded Smith College.
- You probably can’t pass Thomas Edison’s employment test.
- The most important story you’ll read all week: The Forgotten History of Taco Bell.