A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The banjo and racist revisionism.
- The ballet girls who burned to death.
- Haymarket time capsule discovered.
- Trump and Clinton: A Victorian Novel.
- Threads of health: textiles in medicine.
- Writing Black Panther women’s history.
- Hormonal contraception and depression.
- Women who married old men in the 1800s.
- How death is personified all over the world.
- The curious history of the calorie in America.
- Patient resistance in 18th-century obstetrics.
- A Nazi resort becomes an upscale destination.
- Meet the historians who support Trump (eye roll…).
- What to expect when you are expecting (in 1671 England).
- How an imaginary island stayed on maps for five centuries.
- Explore the digital library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.