A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- London’s mudlarks.
- Finding Afro-Mexico.
- The history of nachos.
- Alexander Hamilton, enslaver?
- The long history of cottagecore.
- When Christmas was cancelled.
- Divers are salvaging Black history.
- Remembering the Ocoee massacre.
- The gay history of Britain’s WWI poets.
- A new, feminist translation of Beowulf.
- A brief history of China’s lesbian activism.
- The cheap pen that changed writing forever.
- The bittersweet history of diet soda for women.
- Stinky cheese, cat pee, and the science of smell.
- Scientists and health experts need to be advocates.
- No ghosts, but history in New Mexico’s ghost towns.
- The history of Japanese gardens in Western Canada.
- A groundbreaking new history of gay sex and capitalism.
- This abandoned railway was London’s train for the dead.