A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- 7 creepy abandoned brothels.
- The first film shot in New York City.
- Peanut panic: the history of an allergy.
- Rare critic of Tuskegee syphilis study dies.
- Score one more for Betsy Ross’ supporters.
- Addiction in American history: 14 vivid graphs.
- Searching for deaf history of Martha’s Vineyard.
- What did the three-fifths compromise actually do?
- Doing it with food: cooking and the history of sexuality.
- How doctors of the past blamed women for breast cancer.
- Centuries of Italian history unearthed in quest to fix toilet.
- The gruesome ways every character in Wolf Hall died in real life.
- Ben Affleck doesn’t want you to know his ancestors owned slaves.
- Pearl Harbor’s unknown victims will get a second chance at identification.
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I’m amazed that one of the brothels is in Brownwood, Texas. I lived in that town on and off while my aunt and uncle lived there. I never knew this history. Thanks for sharing the story!
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