A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Eugenics and The X-Files.
- Sombreros over the South.
- When chocolate was medicine.
- Wanna play some “Hoover-Ball”?
- “Farmettes” for suffrage during WWI.
- How to sleep safely in Modern England.
- Reflections on women and workhouses.
- The perceived perils of having female jurors.
- The bawdy history of medieval playing cards.
- Returning women to the history of digital history.
- The 1980s media panic over Dungeons & Dragons.
- The 1935 story of a man who wanted to do housework.
- “Americanitis”: The 19th-century disease of living too fast.
- Zika virus and the rise, fall, and rise of Aedes Aegypti in the Americas.