A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The media’s first moral panic.
- Getting fit the 19th century way.
- Domestic violence in the 1970s.
- Parachuting beavers of the 1950s.
- 21 words that originated during WWI.
- There once was a dildo in Nantucket.
- Uncovering Jefferson’s mystery woman.
- Benjamin Franklin’s guide to food and sex.
- America’s long fascination with Virginia Dare.
- How contact lenses were made in the 1940s.
- The first legal abortion providers tell their stories.
- The American women who were anti-suffragists.
- There were fewer black men in medical school in 2014 than in 1978.
- Volunteers find unmarked graves of black Civil War soldiers in Colorado.
- Can the parking lot speak? Uncovering the history of parking in America.