A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Hats off to women who saved the birds.
- The fluidity of marriage in Islamic history.
- It’s finally legal to bitch about Anne Boleyn.
- A 1950s safety guidebook for black travelers.
- How learning to swim has changed over time.
- A yiddish vegetarian cookbook from the 1930s.
- The first electric cars were considered “ladylike.”
- The ancient city where people decided to eat chicken.
- Rainbow plaques: Mapping New York’s LGBT history.
- “All hell will break loose”: The short history of IVF panic.
- DNA matches Amazon groups to indigenous Australians.
- Actually, the oldest Qur’ans are in Syria – and they’re in danger.
- Healing spas and ugly clubs: How Victorians taught us to treat people with disabilities.