A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Bearded ladies on display. Menus of the 1850s and […]
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A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Bearded ladies on display. Menus of the 1850s and […]
With its odd combination of tradition and invention, its appeals to the past and to the future, its ancestor worship […]
In November 1820, the Reverend John Marsh delivered a Thanksgiving Day sermon in Haddam, Connecticut that couldn’t have been more […]
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Getting a taste of Pilgrim life. Stonewall’s contested history. […]
In November of 1866, a minor sensation rocked the Albany area following the death of the young widow Elizabeth Dunham, […]
In mid-September, I fell over my back door step and landed on my wrist. The pain was so bad it […]
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news A history of death midwives. 6 jokes from 19th […]
An article published earlier this year in Obstetrics and Gynecology exposed Americans’ misunderstandings about miscarriage. A team of researchers asked […]
The year my second son was born, I went to work, and my husband stayed home. It was the most […]
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news How lobster got fancy. The man who invented relaxation. […]