Pssst there are TWO excellent hybrid events on the history of contraception at the Dittrick coming up this week, featuring yours truly and @lmacthompson1.bsky.social @lmansley.bsky.social @ayahnerd.bsky.social @vedaniel.bsky.social
Info and register at:
artsci.case.edu/dittrick/upc...
Dr Mia Bay at a podium speaking
Flyer for the 2026 OAH SHGAPE luncheon blue and black text on white paper
Dr. Mia Bay, Paul Mellon Professor of History at University of Cambridge, giving a fantastic talk: “The Streetcar Wars: Streetcars, Segregation and Social Change” at the SHGAPE distinguished lecture at the @shgape.bsky.social luncheon #OAH2026
Really excited to be at Sam Houston State today with @udodiriokwandu.bsky.social and @midwifehistory.bsky.social to talk about the history of medicine, public history, and the Nursing Clio Reader!
It's finally public so I can share good news. At KSU, I won both the Radow College of Humanities & Social Sciences Outstanding Early Career Faculty Award & also the Kennesaw State University Outstanding Early Career Faculty Award. Huge thanks to my letter writers incl @profgoldberg.bsky.social ❤️
In the last few days, I've written half the introduction to my book!! I found out for myself that the real title is (for real this time, I promise) "Women's Votes, Doctors' Rights: The Making of the American Birth Control Movement." Fellow people who "write as thinking" will get this 😂
Program flier for a Zoom talk, "Frank Leslie Buys Women's Votes," Tuesday, April 21, 2026 at 7 p.m. Program hosted by Nancy Brown and sponsored by the Women's Rights Alliance of New York State.
I am on the WRANYS board, and we are so excited about this upcoming program. Please come join us on Zoom! (Fuller description of the talk in next tweet.)
Yikes yikes yikes
Agree; it’s heartening to see @inquirer.com meeting the moment while serving the best city in the world.
I’m really excited to share that Made by History is partnering with @inquirer.com & will be publishing again soon.
Historians, pitch us at madebyhistory@inquirer.com.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...
Further, when and where patriarchy did exist, it resulted in intensifying degrees of legal relief because even men recognized that its constraints were simply untenable in the face of the nation's rapid economic and political transformations.
Shame on the NYT for this article's terrible framing, not the least of which is because it leaves out literally decades of research by historians. We have shown definitively that what these people want literally never existed as a whole in any of these periods.
"They cite the 1950s... or the 1880s, or even Puritan America before the upheavals of feminism, birth control, no-fault divorce, legalized abortion and other policies that granted women rights..." Historian of suffrage & birth control here. The word "before" is doing some real heavy lifting here. 🙄
This all began with an absurdly bad op-Ed in the NY Times by two originalists not doing originalism.
Roe v. Wade was a 7-2 decision. But reactionaries made it their white whale, and spent 50 years building a far-right Supreme Court that would overturn it. I’m not saying the same thing will happen with birthright citizenship. I’m just saying that any dissent in this case will leave that door open.
Period poverty is a widespread issue. Nearly 1 in 4 students struggle to afford menstrual products in the US, and rising cost due to inflation will likely only make that number increase
Lol
Edna Pontellier was right
The title of my new OAH Distinguished Lecture: What Temu Frau Goebbels Gets Wrong about American Feminism
Yes, but also each of the three sentences Temu Frau Goebbels says here is so beyond ridiculously ahistorical and wrong, and not even for the reasons you think you know 🤦♀️
Finishing Women's Bodies, Doctors' Rights imminently. Just gonna rage write my way to the finish I guess? OK then!
I will never stop assigning the feminist historians Joan Scott or Joan Kelly.
Kelly: economic/gender systems "operate simultaneously to reproduce the socioeconomic and male-dominant structures of [a] particular social order."
Scott: "Gender is a primary way of signifying relationships of power."
I will never stop assigning the feminist historians Joan Scott or Joan Kelly.
Kelly: economic/gender systems "operate simultaneously to reproduce the socioeconomic and male-dominant structures of [a] particular social order."
Scott: "Gender is a primary way of signifying relationships of power."
I’m thrilled that Georgia State’s College of Law is home to the Emmet J. Bondurant Center for Constitutional Law, Practice, and Democracy! As associate director, and @espinsegall.bsky.social as director, we’re taking GSU to new heights in the field of constitutional law. news.gsu.edu/2026/02/26/n...
I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.
Are you a History undergrad or grad student? Are you already attending OAH? If you join @shgape.bsky.social at the student rate you might get the one free lunch ticket I have left for our annual SHGAPE luncheon this year featuring Dr. Mia Bay as speaker on "Streetcars and Social Change"! Email me!
A new great and paid position at AAHM
I have been thinking of you and your colleagues. This is truly awful
Stephen Miller's immigrant great-grandfather flunked his initial naturalization test. A judge denied his petition for citizenship in Nov 1932. The reason recorded on the order of was "ignorance." (Nison Miller was attempting to join a US deeply entrenched in eugenics and anti-immigrant sentiment).
Looking forward to reading @brookenewman.bsky.social' s fascinating new book!!! Congrats on this excellent review!
