A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Before Zika, there was rubella.
- Dude ranch fashion of the 1930s.
- A really interesting history of L’eggs.
- Rediscovering Mr. and Mrs. Henpeck.
- Stalin, Chairman Mao, and . . . poop?
- First color photos of Ireland, circa 1913.
- Alternative histories in speculative fiction.
- Flint’s toxic water 50 years in the making.
- Inspiring historical analysis through music.
- Mill girls of the 19th century in the digital world.
- Matrimonial maps from the 1700s to the present.
- If you toured Chicago in 1910, what would you do?
- The 20 minute surgery that cured a prince’s deafness.
- Keeping the world’s first LGBT movie safe from the Nazis.
- Out of the shadow of Aunt Jemima: the black chefs that taught America to cook.