A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The history of women and pants.
- Are you descended from witches?
- The best films on Canadian history.
- Leprosy is not a disease of the past.
- A brief history of sex on the internet.
- Teaching the recent past with music.
- How typewriters changed everything.
- 30 “lost” words from the English language.
- Racist medicine: a history of race and health.
- An Irish suffrage leader tours the U.S. in 1917.
- The legality of killing slaves in the Atlantic World.
- Witness the epic Twitter battle between two museums.
- Was smallpox to blame for Ben Franklin’s marital woes?
- Medical experiments on the enslaved were commonplace.
- Study calculates 18th-century syphilis rates for the first time.
- Research aims to address senior women physician challenges.