A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The end of men, in 1870. A medieval new […]
A Very Lost Cause Love Affair; or, Is It Possible to Write a Good Civil War Romance?
Ask anyone who knows me, and they’ll tell you: I love romance novels. Seriously — after signing up sort of […]
More than Accomplices: The Crimes of Hitler’s Female SS
I did not want to stand behind the SS men. I wanted to show them that I, as a woman […]
The Case for an African Magneto: African Experiences of Torture and Oppression during World War II
The internet broke in August when Zack Stentz, the writer of X-Men: First Class, tweeted that he wanted Giancarlo Esposito […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news How to avoid “inspiration porn.” The Upjohn pharmacy in […]
