A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Sinister hunger stones. Abandoning “addiction.” A history of supper clubs. A short history of terrible diets. How WWI transformed the art world. Nazi Germany as a travel destination. When was the earliest internet search? The ghosts of St. Joseph’s Catholic orphanage. Sex, religion, and… Read more →
Jacqueline Antonovich
Jacqueline Antonovich
Executive Editor
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news TV and the bomb. Exploring IQ tests in 1911. Van Gogh’s French asylum. The Birds and Bees in China. The gay history of British royals. The rare blue the Maya invented. Rediscovering a Founding Mother. New York City and the history of LSD. Charwomen… Read more →
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Fear of a gay Batman. Tattooing in the Civil War. Tulsa’s crow-eating craze. WTF is “freedom feminism”? Airbrushing out Soviet History. A brief history of the tube sock. How makeup went mainstream. Sex, religion, and an anatomy text. The British Museum’s looting problem. The… Read more →
Rocky Mountain Racism
This past May at the Cannes Film Festival, Spike Lee screened his latest movie, BlacKkKlansman. The audience gave the film an extended standing ovation and Variety’s chief film critic, Peter Debruge, later wrote, “If D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation was ‘like writing history with lightning,’ as Woodrow Wilson described it way back in… Read more →
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Toddler formula? Brexit through the gift shop. A pictorial history of Nevada. Bad vibrations in public history. The magician who disappeared. The greatest upset in quiz show history. Edward Jenner and the happy immunity. 10 bullsh*t period myths throughout history. Being a Victorian librarian… Read more →
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Um, Nope. A history of ketchup. Maxillofacial portraits of WWI. Homophobia in women’s sports. How racism gave rise to acupuncture. A history of diners that look like train cars. Rare photos of Frida Kahlo as a teenager. Three big ableist myths about Helen Keller…. Read more →
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news In defense of microfilm. Freud’s secret committee. Chicago’s vegetarian past. The radical history of boxing. A brief history of the witch hat. Can we save AP World History? The lesbian Queer Eye is coming. The feminist history of breaking up. The decline of the Civil War… Read more →
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Who gets the embryos? How to create a human being. The secret history of Leviticus. Why is history all about humans? Diseases of virgins and spinsters. America’s first female mapmaker. Polio and the origins of Candy Land. Race and identity in medieval Europe. The… Read more →
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news A history of desserts. The history of toothpaste. Selling dead people’s things. The history of American fear. Civil War soldiers who glowed. Returning the wandering womb. The “macaroni” scandal of 1772. Why disability studies for archives? How to write about criminal women. How science… Read more →
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news A history of hospice. Archiving while black. Lobotomies and colitis. How to decolonize a museum. The 18th-century craze for gin. A brief history of the word “femme.” An intellectual history of the sandbox. A history of home sewing and fashion. The secret surgeries of… Read more →