When historians and engineers work together, they can bring a version of the past back to life.

Surgery was rare and risky in the medieval period. Though medical options were limited, trans people were able to take transitioning into their own hands.

Gunpowder warfare kicked off a new era of invasive surgery and prosthetic technology in Western medicine.

Medieval scholars connected celestial events to changes that happened on the ground, such as the overthrow of the king.

Early modern societies in Latin America and Spain saw a convergence of traditional medical knowledge and the professionalization of medicine. The resulting differences in access to care endure today.

Your doctor’s MD emerged from the Dark Ages, where practicing rational “human medicine” was seen as an expression of faith and maintaining one’s health a religious duty.

The idea that Europeans brought new diseases to the Americas and returned home with others has been widely accepted. But evidence is mounting that for syphilis this scenario is wrong.

The Baltic crusades had a long term impact on the local environment – 700 years later, the details of this are clear.