A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Did my grandmother vote?
- Most museum docents are white.
- Plague and protest go hand in hand.
- Cocaine and Canada in the early 1970s.
- “Pie for a suffragist’s doubting husband.”
- The intersections of Blackness and disability.
- A food historian’s “ode to macaroni and cheese.”
- A brief history of the United States Postal Service.
- The race to collect the pandemic’s history—as it unfolds.
- Why this charming gay fairytale has been lost for 200 years.
- Love “WAP”? Here’s a history of sex-positive women in rap.
- We need to talk about the links between sex, race and colonialism.
- Nudity in the US film industry, and how it has (and hasn’t) evolved.
- Store stickers on old records and the history of Mexican American music.