A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- A history of women fighting wildfires.
- Was the real Lone Ranger a black man?
- Collecting data about tuberculosis in 1900.
- The court case that killed the “ladies menu.”
- When women channeled the dead to be heard.
- The true story of Waco is still one of contention.
- This artist poses nude at former slave-trade sites.
- Archelus H. Mitchell and his 1916 anesthesia machine.
- Why a 73-year-old gay pool party shook us to the core.
- A US immigration history of white supremacy and ableism.
- After 400 years lost, Spain’s cursed novel is finally published.
- Medical schools must atone for their role in the cadaver trade.
- Mysterious circle of intertwined skeletons found by archeologists.
- What should we have the right to know about a President’s health?
- What’s the real story about the milkmaid and the smallpox vaccine?