A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- 19th century marriage manuals.
- Advertising tuberculosis cures.
- Dolly Madison’s killer croquettes.
- The chastity belt: myth or reality?
- The economic history of leftovers.
- The long history of technology panics.
- Pregnancy, choice, and lessons from the past.
- Black slavery and the general viewing audience.
- Food and the performance of queer domesticity.
- The black activists who helped launch the drug war.
- Can we all just appreciate the beauty of historic outhouses?
- A brief history of women putting poison in their lovers’ food.
- “I fell down the stairs”: Marital violence, material culture, and space.
- The history of women in black turtlenecks (and the people who hate them).