A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Witchcraft in Canada.
- Telling menstrual tales.
- Better health through cannibalism.
- On Christopher Robin, war, and PTSD.
- The curious history of Lincoln’s birth cabin.
- Reading the Iliad during the 1980s AIDS crisis.
- Why did so few novels tackle the 1918 pandemic?
- The invention and evolution of the concentration camp.
- Why do we call it that? Backstories of 7 disease names.
- The first woman to translate the “Odyssey” into English.
- Apasmaaram and the academic pursuit of disabled pasts.
- The ugly history of the Pledge of Allegiance — and why it matters.
- Russia struggles with the legacy of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.
- How to handle your period: 10 pieces of (bad) advice from history.
- Black doulas and midwives respond to rising black maternal deaths.
- The Baker Street vice ring and the birth of the Asian American homo.
- The ghost of Kit Carson and women’s history along the Santa Fe Trail.