A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The tampon: a history.
- Travels of a WWI nurse.
- A brief, boozy history of iced tea.
- The horrifying history of a leper tree.
- 19th-century vegetarian personal ads.
- Girl hitchhikers in 1970s comic books.
- How to make a knitted uterus for teaching.
- Andrew Jackson’s reputation is changing again.
- A brief history of vaginal cutting during childbirth.
- Amateur women’s baseball teams of the 19th century.
- A 1970s sex ed comic that sparked lawsuits and loathing.
- Ellis Island expands its history of U.S. immigration history.
- A short history of cops shutting down children’s lemonade stands.
- Astrological birth control and the politics of non-hormonal contraception.