A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Lady Death.
- “We all expected to die.”
- Scope Magazine (1941-1957).
- Tear gas and the U.S. border.
- The story of the pile of limbs.
- The boy left behind in Nazi Vienna.
- Daisy, Daisy, the Cycling Countess.
- The forgotten abortion-rights activist.
- Presumed heterosexuality in the archives.
- Why do Americans eat three meals a day?
- A new clue into the secrets of the 1918 flu?
- Gynecology and the ungendering of black women.
- The woman who signed the Declaration of Independence.
- The glamorous, sexist history of the women’s restroom lounge.
- Did Queen Elizabeth’s face powder poison her? It’s complicated.
- Victorians feared modern technology would make everyone blind.