A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- To make Hippocras, a 1615 recipe.
- Is Google Home a history calculator?
- The long history of the menstrual cup.
- Picturing pharmaceuticals since 1850.
- Teaching hairdressers to spot melanoma.
- The West and Soviet medicine in the 1930s.
- Histories of hunger in the American Revolution.
- Murder ballads, gender, and who deserves to die.
- Slavery, the plantation myth, and alternative facts.
- A 1798 guide to preparing for cold and flu season.
- How Victorian women kept those fancy dresses clean.
- When nobles thought their bodies were made of glass.
- Children’s art and U.S. food relief in occupied Germany.
- New details on the girl from the Island of the Blue Dolphins.
- Gender and the Cold War in Australia’s most famous women’s magazine.
- Challenging the ban on psychiatrists discussing politicians’ mental health.