A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- A brief history of flavor.
- The secret history of FEMA.
- North Vietnam’s anti-war movement.
- The troubled history of school of choice.
- Lead poison linked to homeopathic remedy.
- Rare suffragette banner found in charity shop.
- Mary Shelley’s post-apocalyptic plague novel.
- Disability erasure and the apocalyptic narrative.
- The history of nudism in San Francisco uncovered.
- The ancient history of Lyme disease in North America.
- How moldy hay and sick cows led to a life-saving drug.
- How electroconvulsive therapy became a Nazi weapon.
- Defending lesbian moms in late-twentieth-century Calgary.
- How the Summer of Love reshaped American conservatism.
- The frustrating and complicated history of the anti-vax movement.