A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- A history of Peeps.
- A little mercurial history.
- The death of the hippies.
- The Red Summer of 1919.
- The return of reefer madness.
- The CCC and African Americans.
- The “baby dolls” of New Orleans.
- When slaveowners got reparations.
- Victorians and their love of leeches.
- Spy, amputee, wearer of live snakes.
- The PowerPoint slide that killed 7 people.
- Conspiracy theories in 19th-century politics.
- The lesser-known history of slavery in California.
- Colonizing condiments: a short history of ketchup.
- White ghosts, silver bullets, and the Haitian Revolution.
- The Yankees stop playing Kate Smith because of her racist jingles.