A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- What’s a museum?
- How to woo a suffragist.
- The Abigail Adams problem.
- Rewriting black gendered stories.
- The rise and fall of the Spamettes.
- The history of “pickles and ice cream.”
- Conversion therapy and the culture wars.
- The radical women of Latin American art.
- Charles Dickens and his robot theme park.
- The woman who gave Macintosh its smile.
- Coffee as a queer space, past and present.
- The long and painful history of treating acne.
- What do hamburgers have to do with gender?
- Photos of gynecological tools from centuries past.
- New York outhouse offers glimpse into 19th-century abortions.
- What was it like to be a steerage passenger in the 19th century?
- 19th-century love letters between Eastern State Penitentiary inmates.