A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Punk rock and public history.
- Phrenology and the Civil War.
- Cough killer’s secret ingredient.
- Child stealing in Victorian Scotland.
- Trump, Charlemagne, and nostalgia.
- What doctors can learn from looking at art.
- The casualties of women’s war on body hair.
- The legacy of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
- What historians wish people knew about drugs.
- Explore two decades of black women’s cinema.
- Nothing says ‘I hate you’ like a vinegar valentine.
- How slave owners used food as a weapon of control.
- Literature about medicine may be all that can save us.
- Pink pussy hats and the long tradition of fashion in the service of feminism.