A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Bed, bread, and dead.
- The wilder side of skin grafting.
- Heroines of the Haitian Revolution.
- Rural witchcraft and intellectualism.
- An oral history of “Rapper’s Delight.”
- Evolving views on epilepsy and crime.
- The midwife who saved intersex babies.
- The “WebMD” of the 18th and 19th centuries.
- Jenner, Phipps, and the smallpox vaccination.
- Just how creepy is “embryo jewelry,” exactly?
- Debunking the myth of the 19th-century “tear catchers.”
- Join or Die! How snakes were used as American symbols.
- Focus on infants during childbirth leaves U.S. moms in danger.
- The woman who became a celebrity in the 1960s by hating to cook.
- “Tar Baby”: A folk tale about food rights in the inequalities of slavery.