A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Neurosurgery and WWI.
- A short history of influenza.
- Fascism and medicine in France.
- A famous painter and tuberculosis.
- Did Victorians really get brain fever?
- Child dropping in nineteenth-century Britain.
- How Duncan Hines shaped restaurant history.
- The creator of the LGBT rainbow flag has died.
- The historical origins of today’s healthcare debates.
- How many great minds does it take to invent a telescope?
- How a public library amassed over 3 million historical photos.
- Pride and racial prejudice, or why the far-right loves Jane Austen.
- Reproductive rights and race struggle in the decolonizing Caribbean.
- The greatest war photographer you’ve never heard of (spoiler alert: a woman).
- The RMS Queen Mary (where this author had her prom about a billion years ago) is in trouble.