A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The history of “Boo!”
- Macabre scientific relics.
- A brief history of brain surgery.
- Racism and the rise of big candy.
- The fertility towns of early modern England.
- Civil War cemeteries may be leaking toxins.
- Black mothers and the birth control movement.
- How pumpkins were used in early modern medicine.
- Slashing throats for 170 years: the real Sweeney Todd.
- Why are old women often the face of evil in fairy tales?
- Betty Crocker’s absurdly beautiful Atomic-Age creations.
- Is one of the world’s rarest paintings lost somewhere in D.C.?
- The History Channel and the myth of American exceptionalism.
- The ghost-obsessed professor who became haunted by the living.