A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Slavery and fashion. Good animals, bad humans? Why do we pledge allegiance? How art embraced nakedness. The poetry of Victorian science. Victorians and their magic lanterns. When slavery is erased from plantations. Why don’t more boys read Little Women? “The Yellow Wallpaper” and women’s pain…. Read more →

A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Finding Hope. A history of the clitoris. A brief history of the RV. The hiphop archive at Harvard. Spreading the news of yellow fever. The origin of the word “quarantine.” The long history of the genderless “they.” A short history of America’s “tamale wars.”… Read more →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →