A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- 98 years of fallen women.
- Challenging pioneer memory.
- How barbed wire changed America.
- Food propaganda in the world wars.
- Toppling monuments, a visual history.
- Reflections on history and Harry Potter.
- Explore the history of health in Boston.
- Medievalists respond to Charlottesville.
- Women, disability, and unacceptable bodies.
- Hospice photography creates legacy for families.
- A history of the New York Times discovering “exotic foods.”
- National Park Service quietly changes wording on Robert E. Lee.
- In 1965, Charlottesville demolished a thriving black neighborhood.
- Women in federal prisons are now guaranteed free pads and tampons.
- White nationalists are flocking to genetic ancestry tests, and hating the results.