A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Under Victorian microscopes.
- When poop becomes medicine.
- The racist history of crisis actors.
- When London pubs were full at 7 AM.
- The feminist history of the French fairy tale.
- Human bones could belong to infamous pirate.
- The history and future of feminist resistance in art.
- The strange saga of George Washington’s bedpan.
- The emotional world of military surgery, 1815-1914.
- The forgotten testimonies against Clarence Thomas.
- College finds lock of George Washington’s hair in a book.
- The lesbian pioneers who fooled Spain’s Catholic Church.
- Eugenics case highlights dark chapter of Japanese history.
- Victorian governesses were in danger from their employers.
- Drunk on genocide: How the Nazis celebrated murdering Jews.
- How the children of Birmingham changed the Civil Rights Movement.