A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Getting a taste of Pilgrim life.
- Stonewall’s contested history.
- The glorious history of cat ladies.
- The female libido pill isn’t selling.
- 18 rules for young ladies in 1831.
- The story behind the first rape kit.
- You’re great-grandma’s dirty books.
- Ancient medicine and fetal personhood.
- German sausages and flying ambulances.
- The 1749 story of a dying man in the road.
- The long and peculiar history of better babies.
- Why aren’t straight men told to get STD tests?
- The most popular boy names in Tudor England.
- Scenes from the American West, 150 years ago.
- Berkeley and the progressive origins of modern drug policing.
- Historic preservation meets hip hop: the birth place of N.W.A.