A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- A breath of maggoty air.
- Stammering in Victorian Britain.
- How women created book clubs.
- The unlikely hippies of the USSR.
- Breastfeeding in children’s books.
- A short tour of monuments to cats.
- Photographing Civil Rights up North.
- Autism Speaks no longer seeking cure.
- Women, foreigners, and VD in modern Japan.
- Silence=Death: It’s time to teach AIDS history.
- Nat Turner’s skull and my student’s purse of skin.
- Emmett Till memorial sign scarred by bullet holes.
- The unsung history of America’s hard-working hobos.
- How gaps in mental health care play out in the emergency room.
- Transgender people no longer forced to undergo sterilization in France.