A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Roots and the 1970s.
- The disorientation of illness.
- A history of dissecting the living.
- Nigerian history in comic books.
- The ugly history of cosmetic surgery.
- The unsettling art of death photography.
- The real mad tea parties of the Victorians.
- The 1930s health campaign against STDs.
- Tamales and the Muslims of Sheridan, Wyoming.
- Tracing “hobo graffiti” of the early 20th century.
- Women are turning to at-home abortion remedies.
- The 1950s TV show that exposed medical quacks.
- Government sanctioned murder during Prohibition.
- Why was the first cremation in the US so controversial?
- Oldest handwritten documents in British history discovered.