A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Have you got the pox?
- The magic of Tower Records.
- Keeping khaki cool during WWI.
- The windshield-pitting mystery of 1954.
- Midwives and abortion in 1860s England.
- Affectionate 1932 map of Harlem nightlife.
- How students decorated their dorm rooms in 1900.
- A day outside on of New York’s largest abortion clinics.
- 17th-century dress found perfectly preserved in shipwreck.
- So, just what is the point of the History of Medicine, anyway?
- Non-surgical, temporary vasectomies might be available soon.
- Monica Lewinsky and the politics of heterosexuality in the 1990s.
- The mysterious Thelma X and the struggle of black domestic workers.
- From Sanger raids to fetal-tissue research battles: A short history of hypocrisy.