A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Frida Kahlo’s wardrobe.
- Refreshing Lenin’s corpse.
- America’s first drug dealer?
- Reefer madness in 1930s jazz music.
- Will the real Mr. Darcy please stand up?
- How WWII spurred vaccine innovation.
- Where in the world is Napoleon’s penis?
- The Jewish origins of Kentucky bourbon.
- Mad Men and women with cancer in the 1970s.
- Buffalo Soldiers biked 300 miles to Yellowstone.
- 1,000 songs from Holocaust survivors archived.
- Tourists and tanks: a WWI excursion up the Alps.
- What do witches have to do with women’s health?
- Remember when Gerber marketed baby food to teens?
- Did rollerskating spark a sexual revolution in the Victorian Era?