A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The deadly story of poison.
- Best practices in period activism.
- The disappearance of Eve and Sall.
- Hip-hop’s Afrofuturistic Hive Mind.
- The 1990s anti-racist action network.
- The commercial that killed a fast food chain.
- Black cowboys reclaim their history in the West.
- “Follow the science,” but explain and apologize.
- In 1841, pneumonia killed the president in 31 days.
- The overlooked queer history of medieval Christianity.
- A history of transphobia in the medical establishment.
- The case for ending the Supreme Court as we know it.
- How a deaf, silent film actor pioneered closed captioning.
- Reversing the erasure of Native contributions to muralism.
- The sulfonamide revolution and children’s health care delivery.
- Building the commemorative landscape 21st-century America needs.