A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- 15 centuries-old board games.
- The superheroes of the archives?
- How the thermometer got its name.
- The history of the anti-vaccination movement.
- A history of school lunches in the United States.
- Sexting is just a new word for a very old activity.
- Code words for “sexually active” in classic films.
- Pieces of the 1893 World’s Fair discovered in Chicago.
- The sharecropper’s daughter who became a millionaire.
- Female spies and gender-bending soldiers of the Civil war.
- The challenges of researching mental trauma in the Civil War.
- Posters, bullhorns, and skirts help spread the word about vaccines.