A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The history of Women’s History Month.
- The failed Soviet rival to the flapper dress.
- The mystery of the 1957 gay wedding photos.
- The historical significance of black queer films.
- How fashion forensics are helping solve crimes.
- Is testing the DNA in museum artifacts worth it?
- “I Love America”: Fundamentalist responses to WWII.
- Why so many babies are getting their tongues clipped.
- America’s long history of hysteria about women’s veils.
- Why white women tried to ban Native American dances.
- The women who made the Mexican Revolution possible.
- Levittown, PA and the northern promised land that wasn’t.
- The challenge of preserving the historical record of #MeToo.
- Measuring ourselves against an idealized home-cooking past.
- A new board game designed to teach old rules of masculinity.
- How the idea of the straight, white, muscular male body shaped America.