A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- A history of the ice pick lobotomy.
- The story of New York’s last slave.
- The path to Griswold v. Connecticut.
- A Jewish family in 19th-century Santa Fe.
- The really interesting history of “the sneeze.”
- When National Parks had segregated facilities.
- The deadly history of “They’re raping our women.”
- How did Marie Antoinette celebrate her 21st birthday?
- The advertising history of opiates in old-timey medicines.
- Secret WWII chemical experiments tested troops by race.
- “I want my country back” and exclusionary visions of America.
- Why is Yale’s Rare-Books Library archiving old Chipotle cups?
- Why women shouldn’t be doctors (according to Victorian medical men).
- How a makeup mogul liberated women by putting them in a pretty cage.