A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- A history of ear wax!
- Victorian cat funerals.
- Nurses and TB in 1950.
- The midwives of El Paso.
- The AIDS quilt goes digital.
- The introduction of anesthesia.
- Suicide and eugenics in America.
- How sexual was Weimar Germany?
- The deviant history of the snowman.
- Help solve a Jackie Robinson mystery.
- European healthcare before welfare states.
- Teaching the history of medicine with recipes.
- How gay history looks different from Chicago.
- Rape and manhood in 19th-century Caucasus.
- The Rosa Parks myth and the politics of children’s literature.
- Two grad students use science to bust the dinner hoax of the century.