A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- How do pandemics end?
- When Japan reinvented filmmaking.
- How we lie to ourselves about history.
- A brief history of presidents and their taxes.
- How Early Modern empire changed medicine.
- The Black press and disinformation on Facebook.
- How the flu pandemic changed Halloween in 1918.
- Here’s how the 1918 flu affected that year’s election.
- New project aims to revive ozark cuisine through seeds.
- Your quarantine clutter has a long and distinguished history.
- What Colorado’s 1967 abortion law tells us about 2020 America.
- From Warhol to Steve McQueen: a history of video art in 30 works.
- The fight to save 100 years of Black history in gentrifying Los Angeles.
- How the “girl watching” fad of the 1960s taught men to harass women.
- California’s history on slavery is central to reparations push for Black people.