A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- A brief history of bloodletting.
- A tribute to the female flâneurs.
- “Rap battles”of Medieval England.
- The secret meaning of food in art.
- If war is hell, than coffee is salvation.
- Robert Charles and Jim Crow violence.
- Hearing history through Sesame Street.
- The fascinating history of flour sack dresses.
- Hillary Clinton, a glass ceiling, and our health.
- 21 Victorian and Edwardian corset pinup girls.
- The lady doctor who starved her patients to death.
- One eccentric doctor and his goat testicle implants.
- Who was the luckiest person in the American Revolution?
- Only 4% of network news about contraception mention IUDs.
- Abigail Adams view of slavery through the windows of the White House.