A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The arsenic eaters.
- Does sleep have a history?
- Bob Dylan’s secret archive.
- A history of period products.
- Sterilization’s cruel inheritance.
- Braille and the War of the Dots.
- A brief history of post office cats.
- The rise of America’s prison empire.
- 18 very strange Soviet cigarette ads.
- The catchy history of campaign songs.
- Cancer as venereal disease in the 19th century.
- Why the history of medieval abortions matters today.
- New research rewrites the history of HIV in America.
- The gut wound that changed the history of medicine.
- K Troop: The story of the eradication of the original KKK.