A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Bearded ladies on display.
- Menus of the 1850s and 1860s.
- The man who tried to weigh the soul.
- Have we found Queen Nefertiti’s tomb?
- Understanding anger in the 18th century.
- What Woodrow Wilson cost my grandfather.
- Were some medieval books made of fetal tissue?
- Falsified medieval history helped create feminism.
- We made Victorian condoms and it was really gross.
- Depressing dinners of the future, as imagined in 1981.
- How America bought and sold racism, and why it still matters.
- The feminist asylum that changed women’s mental health treatment.
- Uterus transplants and the social pressures of biological motherhood.
- A phone booth was just added to the National Registry of Historic Places.