A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- 54 years of the Pill on the NHS.
- How Amtrak got its start in 1971.
- The history of the Christmas card.
- How horses helped cure diphtheria.
- A story of a groundbreaking surgery.
- When tipping was considered un-American.
- Valuing the medical knowledge of enslaved men.
- Irish fairies and Irish food: The Mary Doheny trial.
- How Britons welcomed black soldiers during WWII.
- How twitching frog legs helped inspire Frankenstein.
- What would have happened without the three-fifths clause?
- From duels to suicides: The perils of consorting with cyprians.
- The man who changed how the NYT covered the gay community.
- From Katy Perry to the Kardashians: The French Revolution in advertising.
- Just for fun: A new video game lets you play as a bird attorney in 1848 Paris.