A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- No men allowed at the “Puff Pant Prom.”
- How tuberculosis shaped Victorian fashion.
- The moving revelations of gay home movies.
- 1950s nurse uniforms from around the world.
- The gay mafia: a powerful cabal that never existed.
- Watch the earliest surviving film of The Wizard of Oz.
- Knitting for victory: a how-to-guide for WWI soldiers.
- Creating a sonic history of women around the world.
- Do you recognize anyone in these historical photos?
- Students cook up Julia Child’s recipes, study history.
- Edward Jenner and the development of the smallpox vaccine.
- Is air pollution an overlooked element in the mortality decline?
- Witches both mad and bad: a loaded word with an ugly history.
- Daughters of the Dust, a seeming inspiration for Lemonade, is restored.
- The Mossville History Project and the importance of community histories.