A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- More doctors smoke Camels.
- “King Kong” and American cultural history.
- The moral challenge of the Middle Passage.
- Appraising the Brady Bunch’s art collection.
- How the Great War changed women’s fashion.
- Betsy DeVos and the history of homeschooling.
- How powdered blood could revolutionize medicine.
- African American history, women’s history, and food.
- How should health care workers talk to dying patients.
- The unsolved murder that fascinated Edgar Allan Poe.
- Propaganda, building design, and the Russian Revolution.
- Was Jane Austen’s poor eyesight due to arsenic poisoning.
- Mama Cass finds her voice in a new comic of her teen years.
- Trump says health insurance is complicated – here is a syllabus.
- To the woman of America – a warning from the women of Poland.