A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- A history of death midwives.
- 6 jokes from 19th century America.
- The big, bad breastfeeding industry.
- Stonewall and the politics of memory.
- The misfortunes of a Victorian actress.
- 7 surprising facts about gay life in the 1970s.
- 10 things you won’t see on Downton Abbey.
- Racy 1960s cocktail napkins about birth control.
- Manhattan Project sites to be opened to the public.
- A cultural history of sleeping through historical events.
- The health dangers of being a mid-century modern man.
- A history of curing criminals (or not) through brain surgery.
- A beautiful, messy, and realistic photo essay on breastfeeding.
- The racial segregationist roots of the anti-trans bathroom nightmare.