A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Hospice in crisis.
- London’s deadly visitation.
- Is being female an anachronism?
- Oklahoma’s historic all-black towns.
- Locating birth within the household.
- How disfigured villains perpetuate stigma.
- Nat Turner will be honored with a new statue.
- The real story behind Roald Dahl’s “black Charlie.”
- Keepers of the secrets (spoiler alert: it’s archivists).
- Death in a nutshell: the world’s smallest crime scenes.
- The 1950s educational films that taught kids how to live.
- National Park Service to fund project on the Black Panther Party.
- A suffragist statue could erase the history of suffragette activism.
- What Planned Parenthood taught WWII veterans about birth control.
- Danielle McGuire’s At Dark End of the Street will be turned into a film.
- “Spinster” and “bachelor were, until 2005, official terms for single people.