I'm giving a book talk online tomorrow for the Alice Paul Center for Gender Justice! Sign up at the link:

Top Sellers at Amazon — Small Press Insights Daily Amazon sales tracking for books from ~400 independent literary publishers. The best fiction and poetry, measured against the whole market.

This is a *fantastic* new site that will list the top independent presses selling on Amazon. It will change your definition of "publishing" if you spend time with it. Buy some books using the bookshop.org links to support it.

Just got a grant to fund some long visits to the Schlesinger library! Something to anticipate. Can't wait to talk to the staff, and dive into those archive boxes.

omg, this! I struggle with getting students to explore anti-abortion thought seriously, anti-suffrage thought seriously, anti-vax thought seriously. My famous refrain in all of my classes is, "We have to take our historical actors seriously!"

Also in this book: all the 1850s arguments against total legal and economic dependency of women, by women raised and married in it.

apparently they didn’t talk to a single person in minneapolis about this

Whoof, my age group got a lot of flak last night. All I can say is I grew up on Free To Be, You and Me (adulthood so disappointing), and with the sense that because we were a tiny cohort, nobody cared about us.

Here again to say, after reading yet another half-baked fashion piece, that the trousers that Amelia Bloomer wore were not exposed underwear. Underwear began to be called "bloomers" much later. Thank you.

"Surely Minnesotans won't fight back," racists in 1863 and 2026

Also, liberal men arguing against same! The history of women's rights: it's not just for women.

Also in this book: all the 1850s arguments against total legal and economic dependency of women, by women raised and married in it.

if a position of authority can be misused in this way, that position of authority should not exist. It's clearly not enough to simply change who is in that position, no more than praying that the next king be better than the last.

Mayday Parade I Mayday 2025 — Mayday Mpls Join the Mayday 2025 parade on Bloomington Ave, Minneapolis! Enjoy spectacular puppets, street performances, and community festivities on May 4th.

FYI if you are outside the Twin Cities and want to come visit and support local businesses and also get a view of Minneapolis at its best, you should come for the Mayday parade on Sunday, May 3

Beautifully chaotic, endlessly artistic. Huge puppets. Amazing dance groups. Steampunk contraptions.

My copy arrived today!

"The present is different from the past, but that’s no use if you can’t remember the past. With feminism, the immensity of its achievements over the past 50 or 60 years disappears if you forget things used to be worse in ways almost unimaginable to those who didn’t live through them or study them."

Who’s got a book coming out this year? Reply with a link, a photo of you with a galley, your Publisher’s Weekly screen shot, whatever. I genuinely miss being a bookseller and seeing people get excited about their new books gives me joy. It’s rough out there. Let’s see your 📚!

Red and cream buds and tassels on a twig, green grass, pine trees, and gray stone path, wall and driveway in the background.

Did a spring wander around my garden this afternoon. The red maple flowers are the stunners.

Cat wrapped in an orange-blue knitted scarf with Over the Garden Wall characters depicted on it

I FINISHED THE SCARF!! Just in time for Spring when I no longer require a scarf.

Every democracy in the world has universal suffrage, and repealing the 19th Amendment would require approval by three-quarters of the states — an exceedingly unlikely prospect. But Mr. Partridge said that as more Americans embraced traditional gender roles, he foresaw red states throwing up barriers to women’s suffrage.

This highlighted bit is, simply, false. It misrepresents the way the American constitutional system actually works today. It turns out that if the president decrees women do not have the right to vote, & five votes on the Roberts Court agree, then they do not, in fact, have the right to vote.

The Abolitionist Origins of American Feminism From Mary Wollstonecraft to Sojourner Truth, the fight for women’s rights emerged alongside—and was fundamentally shaped by—the struggle to abolish slavery and secure universal human rights. On the 2...

Historian here. What have I been doing over my sabbatical besides meeting multiple commitments? Getting started on the new book on feminism. Here is a preview from Ms. Magazine which I read as a young girl in India. Big Gloria Steinem fan here! msmagazine.com/2026/04/02/t...

An LLM is nothing like a sewing machine, and only a dickhead who devalues textiles could even come up with that.

Every single garment is handmade, from the cutting up. We have been attempting to automate for literally a century. It’s not happening. Circular knits are about the pinnacle.

Hey, folks!

Today is publication day for "The American Revolution at 250: Twenty-Four Historians Reflect on the Founding!"

Honored to be included with this cohort.

Don't miss this marvelous thread on favorite books about women's history.

Mine! But also, ugh, far too many...Nimura's The Doctors Blackwell, Kirstin Downey's bio of Frances Perkins.

Cyrus Heizer, Suffragist For Women’s History Month, I’ve been asked to talk in public about my biography of Amelia Bloomer, the bloomers, and why and how we remember history. I’ve talked to a college clas…

Gave a sermon on a 1912 sermon "“Let woman live out her own life.”

Everyone pony the fuck fpr the librarian who just got sacked for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from the kids' section of the library.

I'm honored that @pdtoler.bsky.social has resposted our interview about my LYDIA MARIA CHILD: A RADICAL AMERICAN LIFE for #womenshistorymonth. 🙏🙏

Child would have SO much to say about current events. Time to channel her wisdom. IMHO!

www.historyinthemargins.com/2026/03/25/f...

Cyrus Heizer, Suffragist For Women’s History Month, I’ve been asked to talk in public about my biography of Amelia Bloomer, the bloomers, and why and how we remember history. I’ve talked to a college clas…

Gave a sermon on a 1912 sermon "“Let woman live out her own life.”

He could not remember what the thin blue book at the bottom of the pile was. Something earnest and statistical, he thought. Tsetse flies, or calories, or sex behaviour, or something. Even in that, you knew what to expect on the next page. Did no one, any more, no one in all this wide world, change their record now and then? Was everyone nowadays thirled to a formula? Authors today wrote so much to a pattern that their public expected it. The public talked about ‘a new Silas Weekley’ or ‘a new Lavinia Fitch’ exactly as they talked about ‘a new brick’ or ‘a new hairbrush’. They never said ‘a new book by’ whoever it might be. Their interest was not in the book but in its newness. They knew quite well what the book would be like. It might be a good thing, Grant thought as he turned his nauseated gaze away from the motley pile, if all the presses of the world were stopped for a generation. There ought to be a literary moratorium. Some Superman ought to invent a ray that would stop them all simultaneously. Then people wouldn’t send you a lot of fool nonsense when you were flat on your back.

Picked up Gen Z from work, and they were laughing about this bit of 1951 discourse at the beginning of The Daughter of Time.