A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The life of Jenny Marx.
- A history of the stethoscope.
- The menace of the barber shop.
- Is the war on cancer a good idea?
- A history of the family dinner in America.
- A brief history of the Sagebrush Rebellion.
- A new skeleton raises an old debate on syphilis.
- The morbid journey of Cromwell’s traveling head.
- Remember their names: Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey.
- Was Charles Dickens the first celebrity medical spokesman?
- New databases offer insights into the lives of escaped slaves.
- The problem with “always” and “never” in historical costuming.
- How Freud’s nephew got American women to embrace smoking.
- Unfinished film highlights the daily lives of black Americans in the 1960s.
- What 11 common objects would cost in 2015 if colonial taxation still existed.