A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Sex, art, and misogyny.
- The first mom in space.
- A tale of two suffragists.
- What killed Prince Albert?
- A history of American beef.
- Was Shakespeare a woman?
- PTSD and the American Civil War.
- Escaping the corset in South Korea.
- The last queen of Greenwich Village.
- An indigenous take on the Oregon Trail game.
- Ancestry.com, genealogy, and white supremacy.
- The long and tangled history of Alfred E. Neuman.
- Planned Parenthood and the “unfairness in our system.”
- Did you take folic acid during pregnancy? Thank Lucy Wills.
- A history of cribs and other inventions to get babies to sleep.
- Smallpox, polio, and the haggling behind two medical triumphs.