A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- A history of Pyrex.
- The midwestern history revival.
- Shoes in Jane Austen’s world.
- The digital transgender archive.
- Babies named after WWI battles.
- The 1890s fashion trend: live lizards.
- An 18th-century sapphist’s sexy garden.
- Sexuality and the modern American gossip rag.
- What a rare disorder says about “bad mothers.”
- A fascinating DNA mystery (stay for the histmed).
- Why did Victorians treat acid attacks so leniently?
- What does motherly love have to do with eugenics?
- Why Lane Bryant Malsin was a fashion revolutionary.
- Sex, contraception and abortion in Medieval England.
- Why is the Internet Archive preserving one man’s junk mail?
- Finding women’s expressions of suffering in personal writings.