A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- A herstory of lesbian bars in NYC.
- The stimulating history of sex tech.
- How Miss Millie taught the Civil War.
- The long, strange history of dieting fads.
- What rum and cokes have to do with war.
- How eggs may be hampering your flu vaccine.
- Cooking up the food from 17th-century sea voyages.
- What about the “lost children” (and mothers) of America?
- Insulting African American Gold Star Widows has a history.
- The enduring allure of Baba Yaga, the ancient swamp witch.
- How Japanese warrior prints popularized the full-body tattoo.
- Stranger Things and the history of the trope “coming back wrong.”
- The secret history of Cricket magazine: the New Yorker for children.
- America’s national parks have become hotbeds of paranormal activity.
- Washington, D.C., is home to America’s largest collection of parasites.