A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Art of a revolution.
- The myth of the Jewish nose.
- A short history of the elevator.
- Germany’s real life “swing kids.”
- Live childbirth to make TV history.
- An unnamed girl, a speculative history.
- How measles kills 100,000 kids a year.
- Attack dogs and the history of racial violence.
- New York’s pizza history may need a major rewrite.
- The gay history of America’s classic children’s books.
- First Lady Sarah Polk and conservative female power.
- Antique malls as centers of white nostalgia and racism.
- British Library’s collection of obscene writing goes online.
- A family torn apart, as revealed by Chinese immigration forms.
- From witch hunts to moral therapy: a history of mental health care.
- Red Dead Redemption 2 allows players to confront the U.S.’s racist past.