A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Beyond Miss America 1968.
- Santa Claus and the Civil War.
- The Jonestown we don’t know.
- A complete history of the autopsy.
- Vikings, baking powder, and poets.
- The girls who signed purity pledges.
- Roasted to death on Christmas day.
- WWI and a memorial to forgetfulness.
- The deadly obsession of immortal life elixirs.
- The consequence of pain relief, then and now.
- The itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny, very litigious bikini.
- The accidental history of NORAD’s Santa tracker.
- How curators are finding the climate in art history.
- The lesbian “blood sisters” who cared for gay men.
- The feminist novel that influenced Huxley and Orwell.
- The incredible cloth womb of an 18th-century midwife.