A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Madhouse genetics. The history of the bidet. The great big pumpkin fight. Why fascists hate masturbation. What caused the Salem witch trials? How furious women shaped our history. Aging can be hard on trans community. The long history of lavender as medicine. A call… Read more →

A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Children in the asylum. The origin of monsters. The history of Ouija boards. Save the pub or safeguard health? Unpregnancy and Arctic exploration. The early days of America’s AIDS crisis. Formaldehyde in milk and lead in cheese. When pop-up books taught popular science. Homefront… Read more →

A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Nursing done in wild places. We can thank women for beer. What’s the definition of health? The Mental Patients Union, 1973. When televisions were radioactive. Drinking gold in 16th-century France. The true cost of the Louisiana Purchase. A history of restaurant food photography. Remembering… Read more →

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 →