A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- A very interesting history of passports.
- A homosexual Christmas in 1905 Berlin.
- A medieval guide to predicting the year.
- The corporate takeover of the Red Cross.
- The history of Americans dressing casual.
- The case files of the NYC coroner in the 1900s.
- The radical history of 1960s adult coloring books.
- Researchers are pushing for a safer strain of polio.
- The “Disease Woman” of the Wellcome Apocalypse.
- Victorian bakehouses, murderers, and disposing of bodies.
- Take a tour of New York Public Library’s erotica collection.
- On the history of teaching and the value of “women’s work.”
- Opium-soaked tampons, voodoo elixirs, and leeches, oh my!
- Trees bent by American Indians being identified and preserved.
- Another plantation site gets moved, misremembered, and erased.