A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Nursing done in wild places.
- We can thank women for beer.
- What’s the definition of health?
- The Mental Patients Union, 1973.
- When televisions were radioactive.
- Drinking gold in 16th-century France.
- The true cost of the Louisiana Purchase.
- A history of restaurant food photography.
- Remembering a crucial moment in gay history.
- The erotics of the Mexican body in a gay magazine.
- Alcohol, pregnancy, and the language of denigration.
- A 19th-century drug may be useful for cancer treatment.
- A rare look at the radical lesbian movement of the 1970s.
- Sailor’s rape confession uncovered in 17th-century journal.
- How suffragists used anti-immigrant fervor to gain the vote.
- How merit badges offer a cultural history of the United States.
- A woman’s account of her own mastectomy in the 19th century.