A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- A history of virility.
- Mothers in World War I.
- Star Wars and Civil War medicine?
- How to dye your hair blond in 1650.
- Rabies and the mad dogs of London.
- The real housewives of Ancient Egypt.
- The many women mentors of Malcolm X.
- The racist history of Kentucky’s state song.
- The deadly pain medicine sold by skeletons.
- Do our memorials do more harm than good?
- African American agency and (anti-)Prohibition.
- Why the last words of Anne Boleyn remain a mystery.
- Abortion doctors might lose their medical licenses in Oklahoma.
- Walt Whitman: patriotic poet, gay iconoclast, or marketing ploy?
- Frederick Law Olmsted and the history of the Sanitary Commission.