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The Transformation of Elizabeth Warren

She faced sexism, split with a husband and found her voice teaching law in Houston.
by Holly Bailey via Washington Post on October 15, 2019

The Hidden History of American Anti-Car Protests

The U.S. had its own anti-car movement, led largely by women, before the Dutch "Stop de kindermoord" movement of the 1970s.
by Peter Norton via CityLab on October 8, 2019

The Inventor of Mother’s Day

Anna Jarvis spent years fighting the holiday’s commercialization, but that may have hastened its descent into Hallmark territory.
by Sophie Monks Kaufman via Hazlitt on May 9, 2019
Lithograph of Black wet nurse nursing a white baby.

The Double-Edged Sword of Motherhood Under American Slavery

How did enslaved mothers contend with the possibility that their children could be sold away from them?
by Emily West via Uncommon Sense on May 7, 2019

It Was History All Along, Mom

Why did I never recognize all the important and valuable stories my mother told me as "history"?
by Erin Bartram via Contingent on May 5, 2019

The History of L.A.’s African American Miniature Museum

How and why a Los Angeles folk artist created a vast array of intricate dioramas to form the African American Miniature Museum.
by Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman via Atlas Obscura on April 30, 2019

The Making of an Iconic Photograph: Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother

The complex backstory of one of the most famous images of the Great Depression.
by Jason Kottke via kottke.org on January 31, 2019

In the 19th Century, Miscarriage Could Be a Happy Relief

A new book shows the remarkable contrast between 19th-century women’s views of miscarriage and the loss-focused rhetoric of today.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on November 26, 2018

Meanings and Materials of Miscarriage: How Babies in Jars Shaped Modern Pregnancy

In late-nineteenth-century America, the miscarried fetus became a scientific specimen.
by Shannon Withycombe via Nursing Clio on October 31, 2018

Rediscovering a Founding Mother

Just-discovered letters herald the significance of an unsung Revolutionary woman, Julia Rush.
by Stephen Fried via Smithsonian on August 22, 2018

White Supremacy Has Always Been Mainstream

“Very fine people”—fathers and husbands, as well as mothers and daughters—have always been central to the work of white supremacy.
by Stephen Kantrowitz via Boston Review on July 23, 2018

Jefferson and Hemings: How Negotiation Under Slavery Was Possible

In navigating lives of privation and brutality, enslaved people haggled, often daily, for liberties small and large.
by Daina Ramey Berry via HISTORY on July 8, 2018

Forgotten Feminisms: Johnnie Tillmon's Battle Against 'The Man'

Tillmon and other National Welfare Rights Organization members defied mainstream ideas of feminism in their fight for welfare.
by Judith Shulevitz via New York Review of Books on June 26, 2018

Pregnant Pioneers

For the frontier women of the 19th century, the experience of childbirth was harrowing, and even just expressing fear was considered a privilege.
by Erin Blakemore, Sylvia D. Hoffert via JSTOR Daily on June 5, 2018

How the C-Section Went From Last Resort to Overused

Today, 1 in 3 American babies are delivered via the procedure, twice what the World Health Organization recommends.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on May 21, 2018
Drawing of Ann Reeves Jarvis carrying blankets in a hospital.

The Mother of Mother's Day

The American commercialized version of Mother's Day isn't what the founder intended.
by Allyson Shwed via The Nib on May 11, 2018

Hysterical Cravings

How “pickles and ice cream” became the iconic “crazy” snack for pregnant women.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on April 18, 2018

The Drill

Dezmond Floyd, age 10, has an open discussion with his mother Tanai about what happens during his school’s active shooter drills.
by Dezmond Floyd, Tanai Benard via Story Corps on March 23, 2018
Parents with four daughters.

Parenting for the “Rough Places” in Antebellum America

Jane Sedgwick’s evolving ideas about her children’s natures and her ability to shape them reflected an emerging American skepticism of the perfectibility.
by Erin Bartram via Commonplace on March 1, 2018
Hannah Mayer Stone with Margaret Sanger and other activists.

An Emancipation Proclamation to the Motherhood of America

A profile of Hannah Mayer Stone, one of the key figures in the struggle to make contraception safe, effective, and widely available.
by Jennifer Young via The New Inquiry on November 16, 2017

The Secret Feminist History of Brown Paper Bags

Tracing the connection between a ubiquitous paper product and the women’s liberation movement.
by Tove Danovich via Eater on November 15, 2017
Chidren playing in a playground.

Children and Childhood

How changing gender norms and conceptions of childhood shaped modern child custody laws.
by Michael Grossberg via Child Custody Project on October 31, 2017

Buried Secrets, Living Children

Secrecy, shame, and sealed adoption records.
by Lisa Munro via Nursing Clio on October 10, 2017
Formal portrait photo of an African American wet nurse with a white child on her lap.

Historians Detail Charleston's Role in the Antebellum Market for Wet Nurses

Enslaved wet nurses were a valued purchase in the antebellum South.
by Dustin Waters via Charleston City Paper on September 6, 2017

What the "Crack Baby" Panic Reveals About The Opioid Epidemic

Journalism in two different eras of drug waves illustrates how strongly race factors into empathy and policy.
by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on July 16, 2017
Katharine Hepburn, an iconic tomboy, cocking a gun in 1935.

Tomboys Were a Trend 100 Years Ago, but Mostly to Bring Up the Birth Rate for White Babies

Fear of diminishing broodstock got the gals going outdoors.
by Laura Smith via Timeline on June 21, 2017

Your Child Care Conundrum Is an Anti-Communist Plot

Red-baiters deserve at least part of the blame for the shortage of affordable, high-quality pre-K.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on June 14, 2017
Lithograph of ladies' fashions from Godey's Lady's Book magazine.

The Women’s Magazine That Tried to Stop the Civil War

Godey’s Lady’s Book, one of the most influential American publications of the nineteenth century, tried to halt the Civil War.
by Joseph Michael Sommers, Erin Blakemore via JSTOR Daily on June 11, 2017
Family photo of a woman pulling a child on a sled down a snowy street.

My Grandmother's Desperate Choice

My questions about my grandmother's death – from a self-induced abortion – haven’t changed since I was 12. What feels new is the urgency of her story.
by Kate Daloz via The New Yorker on May 14, 2017
Oneida Community members outside their mansion house, ca. 1865-1875.
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When We Say “Share Everything,” We Mean Everything

On the Oneida Community, a radical religious organization practicing “Bible communism,” and eventually, manufacturing silverware.
via BackStory on November 17, 2016
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