A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Sinister hunger stones.
- Abandoning “addiction.”
- A history of supper clubs.
- A short history of terrible diets.
- How WWI transformed the art world.
- Nazi Germany as a travel destination.
- When was the earliest internet search?
- The ghosts of St. Joseph’s Catholic orphanage.
- Sex, religion, and a towering treatise on anatomy.
- A surprisingly disgusting history of lemonade stands.
- That time a woman rode Aristotle around like a horse.
- Medieval gaming board provides clue to lost monastery.
- Occupation board game found in attic pokes fun at Nazis.
- LGBT heritage districts strive to preserve vanishing culture.
- Did canals and trains make 19th-century Americans smaller?
- It came from the 70s: the story of your grandma’s weird couch.
- How the South memorializes — and forgets — its history of lynching.
- The 20th anniversary of one of America’s most popular sex ed books.
- Ragged beards or smooth skin: the changing face of men’s cosmetics.