A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- A modern girl’s guide to historical living.
- How the military gave us Cheetos and deli meat.
- A historian cooks a meal from a 1796 cookbook.
- On the problem of being charming in 1920s Britain.
- The freaks and fascinations of 18th-century entertainment.
- Want to flirt in the 19th century? You’ll need a card for that.
- The entertaining saga of the worst crook in Colonial America.
- The history lesson that the American Psychological Association forgot.
- How paper dolls and ready-to-wear brought flapper fashion to the masses.
- How the rest of the world learns about the American Revolution in school.
- Aliens, immigration, and religion: the story of Britain’s first Jewish hospital.
- Children’s games in the 17th century included “the game of fart in the face”?