A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Siberians in Hawaii.
- The codpiece and the pox.
- Nobody uses dental dams.
- Brady Bunch and the measles.
- Gendering the history of crime.
- Looking back at WWII’s Lumberjills.
- It’s time to get rid of reform schools.
- 18th-century belief in extraterrestrials.
- Menstrual products as museum artifacts.
- Why we need a new Civil War documentary.
- Unique archive of “the Troubles” under threat.
- Coral, labor, slavery, and silence in the archives.
- How lesbian potlucks nourished the LGBT movement.
- How a London women’s collective turned anger into art.
- The link between marijuana law and the history of immigration.
- The charmed life and tragic death of snake handler Grace Olive Wiley.