A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Syphilis onstage.
- The Wonder in Us, 1921.
- Girl mayors of the 1920s.
- USA! USA! A brief history.
- Treating the bite of a mad dog.
- The whole truth about Van Gogh’s ear.
- How HIV/AIDS influenced American art.
- Cold War food found and eaten by librarians.
- A tale of racial passing at the Mexican border.
- A hospital that experimented on child patients.
- An accidental discovery and the history of radiology.
- 6 lessons of a child’s death in early modern medicine.
- 6 ways we’ve used drugs to “cure” women’s sexuality.
- How one woman convinced doctors she gave birth to rabbits.
- Poor cancer care for Native Americans may be a treaty violation.
- MLK would never shut down a freeway (and other Civil Rights myths).