A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Diagnosing the past.
- An epidemic of plagues.
- The medical imagination.
- The history of surgical gloves.
- The fight for Betty Boop’s soul.
- Demolishing the California dream.
- Teeth whitening in the Victorian Era.
- A forgotten soldier on a forgotten front.
- What we know about art and the mind.
- The culture war that was fought in the sky.
- A new African American art history initiative.
- When black farms blossomed on the frontier.
- The surprisingly dark history of the color pink.
- Women at the center of China’s revolutionary history.
- American refugees and the United Church of Canada.
- The mystical practice that preceded medical anesthesia.
- “Axis Sally” brought jazz to the Nazi propaganda machine.
- The therapy that involved months of motionless milk drinking.