A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Selling American vigor.
- Every president’s health ranked.
- Slavery and the American university.
- How Americans preserved British English.
- Audio love letters were hot in the 30s and 40s.
- The oldest known valentine was written in prison.
- News Flash: History is not just for straight people.
- Meet a woman who survived the 1918 Spanish flu.
- Women, fashion, and pregnancy in the 19th century.
- A comic on the history of black socialism in America.
- Cocaine, black magic, and fascism: David Bowie, 1975.
- The history behind women’s obsession with working out.
- The female subject in psychiatry from pathology to prozac.
- Gerber’s new spokesbaby has Down syndrome. So what?
- Michelle Obama and the black women of the White House.
- Transgender woman breastfeeds baby in first reported case.