A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- 5 forgotten wives.
- Revisiting the cow killer.
- The politics of pantyhose.
- The Strasburgh exorcism hoax.
- The history of weeping in Britain.
- From yellow peril to model minority.
- The exploding chocolate bars of WWII.
- 50 years ago: Building the case against lead.
- Julia Child and the case of the missing mustard.
- Six women and one theft in 18th-century London.
- Pompeii and the ancient origins of victim blaming.
- Documenting black queer history of the 20th century.
- Sex and food in a 19th-century American metropolis.
- The photos that helped end child labor in the Unites States.