A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Women and the White Plague.
- A history of criminal dissection.
- Is this the world’s oldest dress?
- Perfectly preserved WWI trenches.
- The weird, sexist history of pockets.
- Rosa Parks had a kickass pancake recipe.
- What a medieval wine jug can tell us about Islam.
- The 1850s memoir that links prisons to plantations.
- The story of Hollywood’s forgotten feminist crusaders.
- How a Nazi refugee became the father of video games.
- Catholicism, contraception, and the history of sexuality.
- How one group of photographers saw the Great Depression.
- A history of alternative medicine at the National Institutes of Health.
- How the so-called “balanced breakfast” reshaped America’s morning meal.
- How to spot a doctor before the invention of the stethoscope (hint: wigs and wee).