A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Disability, race, and art.
- The faces of World War I.
- Perfume advice for Victorians.
- A brief history of fake doctors.
- The language of American loggers.
- The Chinese survivors of the Titanic.
- (Mis)understanding a female serial killer.
- The strange history of medicinal turpentine.
- 10 historical superstitions we carry on today.
- How “Deaf President Now” changed America.
- Here’s what a world without birth control might be like.
- Pedagogical lessons for tackling the #MeToo movement.
- Remembering the massacre of black soldiers at Fort Pillow.
- Why “nurse” Grace Poole is the greatest puzzle in Jane Eyre.
- The pickled cucumbers that survived the 1980s AIDS epidemic.
- French/Haitian sites of memory and the commemoration of abolition.
- This epic, 40-year-old feminist art piece that we’re still learning from today.