A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Hookworm is back.
- Can microbes speak?
- The Nazi sites of Los Angeles.
- The racialized history of hysteria.
- There was never a real tulip fever.
- Reproduction and frogs in tiny pants.
- Science television in the Sputnik age.
- Digitizing the VHS history of video games.
- Policing homosexuality in 1950s Australia.
- Theater cosmetics and the making of “race.”
- A not-so-hidden history of penises in cartoons.
- “Comfort women” statue unveiled in San Francisco.
- Bringing archives of death and life into the classroom.
- DNA test giveaway at Baltimore Ravens game a complete fiasco.
- Early medical photos, long hidden, now destined for the high bidders.
- Children of Japanese Internment attack travel ban in Supreme Court brief.