A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Defoe and the Plague Year.
- Isn’t she good—for a woman?
- Remembering all of American history.
- The curious case of the Infant Sappho.
- The internet and American imperialism.
- What Bridgerton gets wrong about corsets.
- In The Gay Cookbook, domestic bliss was queer.
- Why we should all be keeping coronavirus journals.
- How fashion was forever changed by “the gay plague.”
- Curators scour Capitol for damage to the building or its art.
- Rare doctor’s note reveals Napoleon’s poor health in later years.
- Medicalizing Black military service in an age of global imperialism.
- Mortality rate for Black babies plummets when they’re delivered by Black doctors.
- Comparing the Capitol insurrection to “third-world countries” ignores U.S history.