A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Bathing machines of the 18th century.
- Is it time to exonerate Ethel Rosenberg?
- Did Victorians repress left-handedness?
- The forgotten heroine of Social Security.
- What made people laugh in the 13th century?
- Medicated cigarettes of the nineteenth century.
- The 19th-century sisters who talked to the dead.
- DNA solves a mystery of Warren Harding’s love life.
- How the Beatles changed the live music experience.
- Teenage girls have led language innovation for centuries.
- Why and when did Americans begin to dress so casually?
- How did African Americans discover they were being “redlined”?