A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Smelly history.
- Early French dermatology.
- Collecting in the wake of Katrina.
- Old Hollywood’s juiciest sex scandal.
- The history of women presidents in film.
- Feminism according to stock photography.
- U.S. Forest Service damages Trail of Tears.
- A vomiting machine could solve a flu mystery.
- An intimate history of German soldiers in WWI.
- A history of Victorians’ favorite drug: laudanum.
- You’ve got mail bombs: the history of dangerous letters.
- Chinese Jews of ancient heritage huddle under pressure.
- How the 1721 Boston smallpox epidemic changed medicine.
- Race and TB in the 19th century: A cool undergraduate project.
- You could literally make your own “chill pill” in the 19th century.
- Beards, bachelors, and brides: the presidential election of 1856.