A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- In defense of microfilm.
- Freud’s secret committee.
- Chicago’s vegetarian past.
- The radical history of boxing.
- A brief history of the witch hat.
- Can we save AP World History?
- The lesbian Queer Eye is coming.
- The feminist history of breaking up.
- The decline of the Civil War re-enactor.
- The radioactive wardrobe of Marie Curie.
- Recovering LGBT history along Route 66.
- How pie-throwing became a comedy standard.
- Plaque in England honors “first modern lesbian.”
- Documenting former sites of Confederate monuments.
- What bloomers reveal about the women who wore them.
- A researcher is digging up largely forgotten queer video games.
- Planned Parenthood opening new locations across the American South.