A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Australian pirates in Japan.
- A brief history of hearing aids.
- The Society Against Quackery.
- LGBT monuments and memorials.
- Why is David McCullough such a jerk?
- You too can make Ben Franklin’s milk punch.
- Where do the “white Middle Ages” come from?
- The struggles of war babies fathered by black GIs.
- How coffee, chocolate, and tea changed medicine.
- The troubling history of bananas and celiac disease.
- Would you mind imprisoning my wife in the Bastille?
- Toy shop treatments for toothaches, infertility, and VD.
- Dear Lady: Historic rejection letters to women engineers.
- Is this 1874 type catalogue the world’s most beautiful book?