A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Pet histories.
- The “animal turn” in history.
- What not to wear, 1816-style.
- Mob violence in the 18th century.
- John Adams and his midlife crisis.
- The oldest restaurant in every state.
- Of ghosts and bones and Vitamin D.
- College sued over student vaginal ultrasounds.
- Palmistry: the future is in the palm of your hands.
- In the hospital on Election Day? You can still vote.
- The indigenous nurses who decolonized health care.
- Early 20th century earthquakes caused by oil boom?
- Meet the women who opened the first punk store in America.
- From the attics and shoeboxes of Virginia: finding Civil War artifacts.
- Just for fun: a list of medical breakthroughs between Cubs World Series titles.