A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Therapy is gangsta.
- How to get breasts like apples.
- The history of food photography.
- How to become a doctor (in 1949).
- The medical history of chocolate syrup.
- The story of Rosa Parks’ Detroit home.
- Lesbian artwork from 19th-century Paris.
- Learning history through Hamilton camps.
- The live chicken treatment for the plague.
- Old soldiers’ homes, left to just fade away.
- The super interesting history of passport photos.
- Rethinking early modern women’s masturbation.
- Untangling the complicated legacy of Sigmund Freud.
- A solution to the most mysterious manuscript in the world?
- The 18th-century custard recipe that enraged Trump supporters.