A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The lesbian gaze of “Carol.”
- “Terrorism” in the Early Republic.
- 19th-century men were bad at flirting.
- Are C-sections best with a little labor?
- The Beatles’ decorator, and a brothel keeper.
- Naked: a cultural history of American nudism.
- The health education film as Nazi propaganda.
- How advertisers sold housework to housewives.
- Shameful secrets: a history of male sexual health.
- Surgical illustrations from the 15th-19th centuries.
- Revolutionary War-era ship found at construction site.
- Syphilis-shaming and early-20th century celebrity gossip.
- 10 things you need to know about the world of “Hamilton.”
- 5 pieces of bad advice from Victorian women’s magazines.
- 500 slaves fought for their freedom in this oft-overlooked rebellion.