A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The history of blood.
- Jack the Ripper outdone.
- The treasure behind the wall.
- Saving black feminist classics.
- America is failing its black mothers.
- A history of seasonal affective disorder.
- The accidental invention of bubble wrap.
- The archiving of black women’s sexual lives.
- Public dissection was a gruesome spectacle.
- I was a 4-year-old trapped in a teenager’s body.
- #MeToo, networks of complicity, and the 1920s Klan.
- When the “back alley” was safe and south of the border.
- The complex link between prohibition and women’s rights.
- A drug that eases miscarriages is difficult for women to get.
- Diverse portraits of the turn-of-the-century American South.
- Did the Nazi’s have a blueprint for a North American holocaust?
- From Lucky Strikes to tapeworms: 7 historical weight loss schemes.