A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Medicine on screen.
- Plague water, anyone?
- The miscegenation troll.
- When Brooklyn was queer.
- The great glass coffin scam.
- Hemp and heritage in France.
- Celebrating bad taste at the Met.
- The laughing gas parties of the 1700s.
- Scientific duo gets back to basics to make childbirth safer.
- Deadly stinks and life-saving aromas of plague-stricken London.
- The significance of private collectors in African American history.
- Letters reveal Charles Dickens tried to commit his wife to an asylum.
- How urban development shaped the way 19th-century New Yorkers ate.
- Emmett Till’s murder and how America remembers its darkest moments.
- The deadly truth about a world built for men – from stab vests to car crashes.
- An internet obsession resurrected a creepy, long-lost Sesame Street cartoon.