A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Malaria pinup calendars.
- Leprosy, heritage, and art.
- Lobotomies and the lobotomobile.
- Rayon and an epidemic of insanity.
- The return of an 1830s clothing trend.
- Black feminism and the French Republic.
- The mother of all apples is disappearing.
- The women’s magazine that tried to stop the Civil War.
- The Library of Congress wants to preserve your memes.
- FYI, your childcare problems are an anti-communist plot.
- When white people waged a war on Chinese restaurants.
- That time Back wrote a mini-opera on people’s hatred of coffee.
- Gamergate, The Great Cat Massacre, and future special collections.
- Two cases of Legionnaire’s Disease found in newborns after water births.