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By Jacqueline Antonovich
-Frida Kahlo’s wardrobe.
-Refreshing Lenin’s corpse.
-America’s first drug dealer?
-Reefer madness in 1930s jazz music.
-Will the real Mr. Darcy please stand up?
-How WWII spurred vaccine innovation.
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-The history of “thug.”
-Advice columns from the 1690s.
-Celebrating 85 years of Nancy Drew.
-When Swedes called in gay to work.
-Race, riot, and rebellion: a bibliography.
-Nazi summer camps in 1930s America?
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-7 lost American slang words.
-A short history of the stethoscope.
-Disneyland’s wonderful wizard of bras.
-Will I be a dope doctor when I grow up?
-Should we teach music history backwards?
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-7 creepy abandoned brothels.
-The first film shot in New York City.
-Peanut panic: the history of an allergy.
-Rare critic of Tuskegee syphilis study dies.
-Score one more for Betsy Ross’ supporters.
-Addiction in American history: 14 vivid graphs.
By Jacqueline Antonovich
-Rollerskating Victorians.
-An ode to a suffrage organizer.
-An old maid’s advice from 1748.
-Dental hygiene in the Middle Ages.
-A silent film’s interracial, same-sex kiss.
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-Privies of the past.
-Midwives on horseback.
-Celebrate deaf women’s history.
-A 19th-century “stench map” of NYC.
-Barbed wire’s dark and deadly history.
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-The vaccine court.
-Where apartheid statues go to die.
-Artificial wombs in 1920s literature.
-10 queer women who changed history.
-5 of history’s most boring board games.
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-Photos of 1970s Harlem.
-A history of food packaging.
-Early modern maternity wear.
-Children at play during wartime.
-10 badass Sikh women in history.
-Women doctors, Hollywood movies.
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