A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- A handy guide to vampires.
- How thrift stores were born.
- Queer digging in the archives.
- Taking photographs of the dead.
- Healthy hogs for a healthy nation.
- The gay architects of classic rock.
- Not having sex in the Victorian era.
- Children in burns prevention campaigns.
- The artist shedding light on the history of girls in juvie.
- Thank this man for your last-minute Halloween costume.
- The real roots of early city states may rip up the textbooks.
- Our unhealthy obsession with beautiful mentally ill women.
- The 100-year-old multiple sclerosis diary that became a classic.
- Harvard digitizes 450,000 pages of its collections on colonial life.
- Help the University of Michigan identify subjects in rare Great Depression photos.
- Talking corpses and demon possessions more credible than a woman’s testimony.
- The Smithsonian’s hip-hop and rap anthology will be an artist/academic collaboration.