A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Rethinking Anne Boleyn.
- Slavery and the family tree.
- A brief history of in-flight meals.
- The bubonic plague hits Hawaii.
- The feminist history of the bicycle.
- Is there a witch bottle in your house?
- Emmitt Till’s father was also hanged.
- For nurses, trauma comes with the job.
- 100 years of LGBT history mapped across NYC.
- Stop viewing pregnant women as threats to their babies.
- How a Victorian artist’s feline fixation gave us the internet cat.
- Meet the mother who invented a precursor to the disposable diaper.
- Century-old “science fiction” and the “ectopic pregnancy treatment.”
- The naked academic who is writing women’s bodies into economic history.
- No comedy outlet has tackled Alabama’s abortion ban better than Reductress.