A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Cholera 101.
- Stonewall at 50.
- Call the (Roman) midwife.
- Children of the poisoned river.
- An oral history of Ms. Magazine.
- A history of American political humor.
- How medical researchers used to party.
- A history of feminist anti-prison activism.
- Child-killing demons and uterus amulets.
- Anti-drug propaganda for 1960s families.
- A history of Chinese restaurants in Canada.
- Last survivor of US slave ships discovered.
- Chinese immigrants helped build California.
- The impossible quest to build a better breast pump.
- Why history looks different through a mother’s eyes.
- Victorian novelists and the search for non-toxic manhood.
- The black scholar who gave up her family to earn her Ph.D.
- How Northern Ireland’s doctors and nurses coped with the Troubles.
- Meet Robert Smalls, an enslaved man who stole a Confederate warship.