A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The fit flapper.
- Slaying the rubella dragon.
- Subversive flour sacks of thanks.
- Shocking satire of the 18th century.
- A brief history of American lotteries.
- Why are popular history books popular?
- Hershey’s chocolate-scented POW camp.
- The power of long hair in the Victorian Era.
- The first artificial insemination was an ethical nightmare.
- The medical civil rights movement and access to health care.
- The secret history of cowboy socialism (Sorry, Ammon Bundy.)
- Blending religion, modernism, and suburbia in 1950s churches.
- Scholars have found the site of the Salem witch trial executions.
- The last known survivor of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake has died.
- The economical impact of having a dad who was drafted in the Vietnam War.