A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- A history of the “ditz” voice.
- Menstruating while disabled.
- Vintage posters of strong women.
- The vaccine that changed the world.
- The illnesses and death of Queen Mary I.
- Super Spooner and the Witchcraft murder.
- The story of the skull found in a London pub.
- The woman who coined the term, “glass ceiling.”
- When did Americans stop marrying their cousins?
- Why so much fuss about the history of emotions?
- A larger role for midwives could improve US healthcare.
- Documenting the complex history of America’s braceros.
- Exploring the history of women at work through their clothing.
- Earliest images of breast cancer found in Renaissance paintings.
- “Fast Car” and the living histories of working-class black women.
- Uber and Lyft think they can solve one of medicine’s biggest problems.
- Watch terrified men learn to deal with women in the workforce during WWII.