A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The fever of 1721.
- Leprosy in 1930s India.
- Ireland’s secret hangman.
- The paradox of gun history.
- The beautiful history of lice combs?
- The long history of the menstrual cup.
- The Melania Drumpf of the 19th century.
- The naked truth about French postcards.
- What did nearsighted humans do before glasses?
- Deafness as a public health issue in the 20s and 30s.
- The early 20th-century obsession with child prodigies.
- Ida B. Wells, police violence, and the legacy of lynching.
- Should we refuse to build memorials for terrorist attacks?
- Concealed births and abandoned babies in Victorian England.
- Can Che Guevara and Brigitte Bardo save this Bulgarian village?