A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- A social history of Jello-salad.
- Denver’s barbecue riot of 1898.
- How air conditioning changed the NICU.
- Awesome men’s fashion from the 1970s.
- Queer female desire in letters to Dr. Kinsey.
- Diary of a 19th-century asylum superintendent.
- 16 “spiffy” words college students used in 1916.
- Everything you know about the chastity belt is a lie.
- The strange saga of George Washington’s bedpan.
- Watermelons looked very different in the 17th century.
- 15 historic diseases that competed with the bubonic plague.
- The anxiety over Tinder is part of a long history of sex panics.
- Selling American women on the first at-home pregnancy tests.
- How lesbians cared for and fought for gay men during the AIDS crisis.