A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Nazis and angora rabbits.
- Quarantine as conspiracy?
- Reexamining The Elephant Man.
- Eugenics: past, present, and future.
- The twists and turns of naming diseases.
- The rise and fall of the military moustache.
- Birth control and abortion in the Middle Ages.
- President Tyler had a killer pudding pie recipe.
- This map shows how long travel took 100 years ago.
- The odd tale of an early twentieth century coconut cult.
- Everything you didn’t want to know about Victorian poop.
- How hot springs became a 19th-century tourist attraction.
- Collecting 90s teenage female sexuality: Harvard gets Sassy.
- 6 pioneering gay writers who brought HIV/AIDS to the forefront.
- Just for fun: The very sexy people of Ancient Rome, according to stock photos.