A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- TV and the bomb.
- Exploring IQ tests in 1911.
- Van Gogh’s French asylum.
- The Birds and Bees in China.
- The gay history of British royals.
- The rare blue the Maya invented.
- Rediscovering a Founding Mother.
- New York City and the history of LSD.
- Charwomen and the history of dusting.
- The story behind LBJ’s wild ex-president hair.
- Facebook is deleting alternative health pages.
- 7 amazing women who made it easier for you to have sex.
- How did Irish single mothers fare after emigrating to Britain?
- The most famous lesbian photographer you’ve never heard of.
- Just for fun: unfortunate interior design throughout modern history.
- Grave robbing, black cemeteries, and the American medical school.
- When the U.S. tried to replace migrant farm workers with high schoolers.