A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- A history of desserts.
- The history of toothpaste.
- Selling dead people’s things.
- The history of American fear.
- Civil War soldiers who glowed.
- Returning the wandering womb.
- The “macaroni” scandal of 1772.
- Why disability studies for archives?
- How to write about criminal women.
- How science is saving ballet dancers.
- The rare woman in the rare-book trade.
- Charles Dickens, public health pioneer?
- A 60-year-old novel about sexual harassment.
- How cannabis became a “drug” in South Africa.
- The man who believed nudity should be a civil right.
- The Tumblr bloggers building a canon of asexual history.
- Uncovering the history of two lesbians in midcentury Chicago.