A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The first American cookbook.
- Who was the real Uncle Sam?
- The Great Moon Hoax of 1835.
- The revolution has been digitized.
- The history of the American diner.
- A brief history of “Boston marriages.”
- When America’s librarians went to war.
- Grandfather of modern cheerleading dies at 89.
- What ancient history can tell us about #LoveWins.
- Stories that went viral before the age of the internet.
- The story behind the first adoption museum in the U.S.
- Just a few reminders of what life was like before vaccines.
- The sex garage raid that became a turning point in Montreal’s LGBT activism.