A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Red dead suffragettes.
- American Nazis in the 1930s.
- A history of the medical book.
- Childbirth in the age of addiction.
- Life span has little to do with genes.
- 8 dishes made by notorious poisoners.
- Period tracking apps are not for women.
- It’s fall, which means it’s time for gonorrhea.
- Wealthy families and their personal historians.
- Chiropractors and misleading medical websites.
- The history of poison and stereotypical narratives.
- The sneaky history of why women started shaving.
- A reporter’s weirdly funny story of taking opium in 1861.
- LGBT tours offer a new way of looking at old museums.
- Victoria’s Secret and the slow death of retail’s male gaze.
- Broomsticks and material cultures of cleanliness in American slavery.
- Using facial recognition software to identify people in Civil War photos.