A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The torrid history of absinthe.
- Things historians can’t live without.
- Nobody did costume parties like the Bauhaus.
- The campaign to help Syrian refugees during WWI.
- Food and sex in Mexico before and after colonization.
- Before ASL there was Martha’s Vineyard sign language.
- Poking fun at the crowded presidential race – in the 1880s.
- Explore pre-Stonewall life in Chicago’s lesbian community.
- The African American housewives who shut down an industry.
- Can you guess the invention based on these patent illustrations?
- How a fake typhus epidemic saved a Polish town from the Nazis.
- Showering and teeth brushing: The strange history of our daily routine.