A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Suffragist Valentines.
- Breakfast with John Adams.
- Parliament is ditching calfskin.
- Why we still love antique Valentines.
- The great New England vampire panic.
- Race, Reconstruction, and reparations.
- Sunken ship reappears off California coast.
- The ugly history of lead poisoning in America.
- Did Barbie begin as a 1940s German call girl?
- Sexual secrets in 18th-century venereal cases.
- All in the mind? Competing models of hysteria.
- A 1924 list of “things which are bad for all babies.”
- A short history of the really bad Valentine missive.
- Paleopathology, vampires, and dancing: the long history of TB.
- What kind of morph are you: an ectomorph, mesomorph or endomorph?