A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Operating on the dead.
- The haunting of Bunny Hall.
- Victorian asthma cigarettes.
- The terror of Spring Heeled Jack.
- The history of the medicine cabinet.
- Sex education battleground in Mexico.
- Pinky: a 1949 film about racial passing.
- Food and enslavement in early America.
- Who can speak for the deaf community?
- The greatest Halloween episodes in TV history.
- What happens to the brain when we get scared?
- The lesbian vampire story that came before Dracula.
- The 1962 study on housewives’ attitudes on fish sticks.
- The mother of modern witchcraft was also a pro-choice spy.
- Ghosts of early modern England: Creeks, screeks, and . . . bacon?