A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Why Freud’s not dead.
- The future of lesbian health.
- Folklore can help debunk autism myths.
- How to bathe like an 18th-century queen.
- Overselling the idea of “young invincibles.”
- The myths of John Snow (Not Jon Snow).
- Dolley Madison and her “pussy-hat”brigade.
- The history of women’s voices on public radio.
- Just for fun: Martha Washington’s wedding ring.
- OMG, for the last time: the Irish were not slaves, too.
- Medieval monks, the plague, and a luxe skincare line.
- The queer Jewish photographer who escaped the Nazis and made great art.
- That time American women lost their citizenship because they married foreigners.
- Before Pabst was a hipster beer, before it was a working-class beer, it was a health tonic.