A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Privies of the past.
- Midwives on horseback.
- Celebrate deaf women’s history.
- A 19th-century “stench map” of NYC.
- Barbed wire’s dark and deadly history.
- The pre-history of the Peeps diorama.
- 19 real-life ads from the Mad Men era.
- 7 of the biggest quacks in medical history.
- Vintage medical equipment: a cautionary tale.
- NYC wanted to put highways on top of skyscrapers.
- Just for fun: things that 1890s girls know to be true.
- Anne Frank likely died earlier than previously thought.
- Parsing Reagan’s words for early signs of Alzheimer’s disease.