A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- A history of hospice.
- Archiving while black.
- Lobotomies and colitis.
- How to decolonize a museum.
- The 18th-century craze for gin.
- A brief history of the word “femme.”
- An intellectual history of the sandbox.
- A history of home sewing and fashion.
- The secret surgeries of Grover Cleveland.
- Just for fun: Gifs that bring art history to life.
- A photographic look at the birth of gay pride.
- The woman who made edibles for AIDS patients.
- Vatican officially uses the term “LGBT” for the first time.
- How the Catholic Church came to see birth control as evil.
- An art historian’s guide to Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s new video.
- Civil War battlefield ‘limb pit’ reveals work of combat surgeons.
- The tortured history of action-film heroines and their high heels.
- She caught bullets with her bare hands and made magic’s glass ceiling disappear.