A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Medical advertisements after FDA.
- The many fires that plagued P.T. Barnum.
- The lesbian surrealist who defied the Nazis.
- The rise and rapid fall of Freedomland USA.
- Women’s work in rural England, 1500-1700.
- Lesbian drag kings who worked for the Mafia.
- Campy couture: Barbie’s 1970s fashion rivals.
- Potty training: a modern (and political) history.
- Margaret Sanger and the elusive male birth control.
- How a 12-year-old girl gave Pluto its name in 1930.
- The conservative roots of the reproductive rights revolution.
- Pop quiz! Can you identify these locations based on medieval maps?