Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Rollerskating Victorians.
- An ode to a suffrage organizer.
- An old maid’s advice from 1748.
- Dental hygiene in the Middle Ages.
- A silent film’s interracial, same-sex kiss.
- Breast milk substitutes in Colonial America.
- Fierce fashion from 19th-century Puerto Rico.
- Fumigating for health in early modern England.
- Women and restaurants in 19th-century America.
- A 1970s cocktail guide from the U.S.Forest Service.
- A helpful chart on name calling throughout history.
- Why are historians obsessed with Game of Thrones?
- A self-defense film from the 1940s (Or: how to kick ass in heels).
Featured Image: The burlesque artist Gypsy Rose Lee at a March of Dimes benefit lunch in New York, 1945, wearing a Charles James outfit. Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis
Jacqueline Antonovich is the creator and co-founder of Nursing Clio and served as executive editor from 2012 to 2021. She is an Assistant Professor of History at Muhlenberg College. Her current research focuses on women physicians, race, gender, and medical imperialism in the American West. Jacqueline received her PhD from the University of Michigan in 2018.