A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Disasters have histories.
- A brief history of gay theater.
- The controversial Sister Serpents.
- Nasty women, meet gobby women.
- How social media spread a historical lie.
- “For decades, our coverage was racist.”
- The ten women of the FBI’s most wanted.
- The whitewashing of King’s assassination.
- How frontier nuns challenged gender norms.
- History, memory, and the power of black radio.
- How American high schools teach the Iraq War.
- From dreams of Valentino to death on the beach.
- The lessons of a black settlement on the frontier.
- Meet the woman who wrote “We Shall Overcome.”
- A museum, a radio, a meteorite, and 15 minutes of fame.
- Why Wikipedia often overlooks stories of women in history.
- A woman who wasn’t “well-behaved,” but didn’t “make history.”