A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The pigeon cure.
- Inventing the beach.
- The shark panic of 1916.
- The Nazi Amelia Earhart.
- Homosexuality and Prohibition.
- Making babies from skin cells?
- Man midwives with rusty forceps.
- Health as goodness not wellness.
- An oral history of Angels in America.
- Mary Seacole statue unveiled in UK.
- Mangling the dead: a history of dissection.
- Super cool hypnotism posters from the 1900s.
- The indispensable guide to Early American murder.
- How urban freeways divided America’s neighborhoods.
- A textbook calls women who have premarital sex “degenerates.”
- For centuries, a small town has embraced strangers with mental illness.