A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Archiving weather data.
- Quackery and the Civil War.
- The secret life of the country house.
- The polio end game gets complicated.
- Finding the humanity in vintage mugshots.
- Splash it all over: a brief history of aftershave.
- Protection or poison? The fluoride debate in film.
- Menstrual equity and tampons in the men’s room.
- The bad-ass black motorcycle queen of the 1930s.
- The painful truth about teeth and income inequality.
- Drag queens are public libraries’ newest storytellers.
- The tuberculosis hospital that treated vaudeville stars.
- Physicians who are moms say that they face discrimination.
- Trump’s exercise theories would fit in well in Victorian Britain.