A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Toppling Columbus.
- When plague is not a metaphor.
- What Black nature might look like.
- Protesting police violence, a playlist.
- The world’s most historic ghost towns.
- The first gay magazine in the United States.
- Sierra Club grapples with John Muir’s racism.
- A brief history of Mexican horror comic books.
- Why did outhouses have crescent moon doors?
- The very queer history of the suffrage movement.
- Would you like to smell like a 19th-century queen?
- Health activism and the legacy of the Young Lords.
- Viking Age smallpox complicates story of viral evolution.
- Traveling through Spain as it grapples with its fascist past.
- Penn museum to remove skull collection of enslaved people.
- Civil War vaccination kits yield clues to how smallpox was defeated.