By Lara Freidenfelds
The dentist peered in my child’s mouth, then turned to me. “Hey, Mom, you did a good job, no cavities!” I brought my kids for a check-up recently, and our wonderful pediatric dentist warmly complemented me. But why on earth did he call me that? And why did it irk me?
By Jacqueline Antonovich
-Walden Pond: The video game?
-Darwin’s pros and cons of marriage.
-Dead men’s teeth: A history of dentures.
-12 bizarre medical remedies from history.
-Before workplace harassment had a name.
-What was it like to discover laughing gas?
By Jacqueline Antonovich
-Early modern hair dye?
-Preserving audio history.
-Paris reborn and destroyed.
-Who were the first “teenagers”?
-Ranch housing in postwar California.
-When cigarettes were good for women.
By Jacqueline Antonovich
-If WWI was a bar fight.
-James Bond’s WWI origins.
-Vintage craft projects for kids.
-Women doctors in the movies.
-“Penicillin Girl” passes away in Denver.
-15 important Muslim women in history.
-Absolutely stunning photos of old Detroit.
By Jacqueline Antonovich
-A 1950s survival guide.
-Einstein’s lost theorem.
-An oral history of Ghostbusters.
-27 strangest inventions in history.
-The quest for a sunken slave ship.
-Two suffragists, one cat, and a car.
By Jacqueline Antonovich
-Stethoscopes are really gross.
-The woman before Rosa Parks.
-The history of heroin addiction.
-Did slavery create modern medicine?
-Um…your earwax says a lot about you.
-Remembering Japan’s kamikaze pilots.
By Jacqueline Antonovich
-Very awkward vintage ads.
-Mark Twain’s advice to little girls.
-23 amazing Black History Tumblrs.
-9 beautiful buildings we tore down.
-What Honest Abe’s appetite can tell us.
-Was knitting a secret weapon in WWII?
By Jacqueline Antonovich
-Vintage divorce postcards.
-Photos from 1938 Mardi Gras.
-A history of sex and chocolate.
-Hemingway ephemera digitized.
-A 19th century map of matrimony.
-25 historic images of breastfeeding.
By Jacqueline Antonovich
-A new Jane Austen mystery.
-Virginity myths that won’t die.
-100 years of the “perfect body.”
-Charles Dickens and his women.
-Not all monument men were men.
-Wikipedia to start archiving voices.
by Jacqueline Antonovich
-A cultural history of rabies.
-Tracking the flu, then and now.
-Did bad weather make us love milk?
-Healthy people seeking amputations.
-Did a 1930s scientist murder 8 people?
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