This lovely obit for Paula Doress-Worters of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective was in the WaPo last week. There is an inane quote from me about her, and a much better quote from an oral history I did with her, but more importantly great stories from others about her spunk and fearlessness.

Such an honour to have my book 'The Book that Taught the World to Orgasm and then Disappeared' written up in the @newyorker.com. I've loved this mag since I was 12 and made my dad explain the articles to me. A thoughtful, voicey review by Margaret Talbot: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

My new article for the Social History of Medicine is online! 'Perk Up Your Looks and You Along With It’: Postpartum Depression and the Body in 1980s and 1990s US Self-Help Books will be in print later this year, in a special issue edited by the amazing @fabiolacreed.bsky.social and Hilary Marland.

SHORT-LISTED! So proud to learn that AAHM has short-listed "Starved for Light" for the George Rosen Prize, along with books from @bethlinker.bsky.social , @rachellouisemoran.bsky.social , @xtinaramos.bsky.social , @travisaweisse.bsky.social , and Harry Yi-Jui Wu. histmed.org/2026-george-...

Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them

“This year’s flu vaccine has proved an imperfect match to the currently circulating strains. New shots, based on mRNA technology, would have one day enabled us to avoid this kind of misfire. But the nation’s leaders have imperiled that future with the decisions they made this year.”

Come be my colleague at Texas A&M! I am excited to share this ad for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of U.S. History (any period) with expertise at the intersection of law and science, technology, or medicine. Please share widely with qualified folks jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69627

Oxford University Press @academic.oup.com is pleased to announce that the First Book Prize will open for submissions in Jan 2026. The prize offers up to 10 early-career researchers the opportunity to publish their first academic book fully open access on Oxford Academic, with the full OA fee waived.

Come be my colleague at Texas A&M! I am excited to share this ad for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of U.S. History (any period) with expertise at the intersection of law and science, technology, or medicine. Please share widely with qualified folks jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69627

The audiobook for Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America is $2.41 on audible, at 86% off… rough for my ego BUT amazing news for anyone who hasn’t bought it yet!

Just learned about a couple books I NEED rn via this great list.

Humans are bad at big numbers. Which makes it easier for billionaires (and trillionaires) to get away with hoarding wealth. Because most people just can't comprehend how much money that is. So, I appreciate this WaPo effort to help people visualize what ridiculous amounts of wealth really mean.

The vast body of research that Ken Burns relied upon to make his new documentary on the American Revolution would be practically impossible to be produced today, what with the defunding of humanistic scholarship, the collapse of stable academic jobs, the attack on public history & academic freedom.🗃️

Sharing my recent article from the Journal of the History of Sexuality, "The Politics of Penetration: Sexual Self-Fulfillment and the G-Spot in 1980s America." It is the first piece I have published from my new project, and it is great to have it out in the world (such as the world is).

Mark's new book is real! Willing Warriors: A New History of the Education Culture Wars. It's an entertaining and smart take on the last 75 years of political fights over American education. @schoolfuss.bsky.social press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

I serve on the AAHM's Outreach and Education committee, and we are about to launch an exciting 2025 History of Medicine Week series! We have events all next week, a couple are only for AAHM members but most are open to anyone interested.

Historians, please share these two exciting new positions in the Texas A&M History Department: careers.historians.org/jobs/2167991... careers.historians.org/jobs/2168299...

Great read

U Chicago Press has a sale on history books with the code history2025, including 30% off mine (& whoa at the incredible company it is in here!)

When working on my postpartum depression book I met folks so excited about therapy chat bots (& now genAI therapy). New parents in the US struggle to find mental health providers, struggle to afford them, and don’t have childcare to see them. This doesn’t solve those problems. It just accepts them.

First academic journal review of my book Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America! Thoughtful (and positive, phew!) review in the Journal of Social History, from the amazing Wendy Kline.

Wow: tenure letter writers’ publication records (h-index) are better predictors of tenure decisions than candidates’ own publication record.

Going over page proofs for an article coming out this fall! First piece from my new project. I am super proud of my recent book on postpartum depression but I can't lie, this has been a less depressing project so far...

I thought every public pool was required to blast pop or pop country, but my they are blasting The Smiths at kids swim lessons in freaking College Station, Texas and it is all so gloriously wonderfully weird

A fun interview I did with Laura McClaw Helms, with way less editing than I am used to so you can read me just jumping around topics like a hyper squirrel (albeit a squirrel with a lot of enthusiasm for the history of postpartum depression)

Michael Steudeman joins @NPR’s Throughline to explore the 19th-century roots of the Dept. of Education—drawing from his upcoming book ABSENCE OF NATIONAL FEELING. Listen + catch the book mention at the end! 🔗 buff.ly/TccdOzc #UPMississippi #Throughline #EducationHistory

Many people don’t know that there are #oralhistory collections that provide firsthand accounts of the experiences of Black Texans. Take a moment to explore them today. Here’s one collection: #Juneteenth #TexasHistory #BlackTexans #BlackTexasHistory bn.web.baylor.edu/news/story/2...

So this review calls Blue "a magnificent, comprehensive, and long-overdue history of postpartum depression in the US," which is incredible. More incredible is the author weaves her own postpartum depression/psychosis story into the academic review in thoughtful and moving ways.

My daughter's camp counselor described her as "a whole vibe," and I am too old to know if this is a compliment, an insult, or a little of both.

Haunted by this 30-year-old postpartum depression self help book I bought used, that came with the questionnaires filled in.

targeted ads really going for the jugular

Completely beyond capacity (aren't we all) but was asked to blurb a book of poetry related to postpartum illness and of course had to say yes. I earned a minor in English 20 years ago and FINALLY I can cash that baby in.

just accidentally put my annual gyno appointment on the department calendar, so that's how today is going

It is my first official day as a full professor (the regents decision was yesterday) and I am struggling to figure out how to change my outlook signature. So, already leaning hard into the professor brand.

Text from a colleague who taught my book Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America this semester! If you use Blue or a chunk of Blue in a syllabus this fall let me know, and I am always super happy to zoom in to your classes to talk about it too.

My second grader learning citation warms over my chatGPT-embittered academic heart

Did an AMA about my book on reddit, which was a really neat way to share some of its ideas with a way bigger audience, even if I felt like a total dinosaur!

We all know the thing where we culturally don't care about women at/after menopause, but cancelling an expansive and influential 34 year study of postmenopausal women is really saying the quiet part aloud.

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Finally got a hold of my new book. Loneliness in World History. Learn about loneliness but also how we do comparative emotions research.

I can’t recommend being department chair enough. Like, I am giving a talk in Santa Barbara tonight and so I am at a coffee shop where I have an amazing view of the ocean and the mountains and also most importantly of the excel sheet on my laptop where I am busily justifying budget lines. The dream!

The amazing This Podcast Will Kill You uses my book Blue for historical context in this episode on the postpartum. And they call it "really fascinating"! (They call Leavitt's Brought to Bed fascinating 2x, very fair, so I'm deeming myself half as fascinating as that book & I'll take it).

Ahhhhhhhhh "Blue" by @rachellouisemoran.bsky.social is one of the sources shouted out by Erin for the history section of Pregnancy part 4 by @tpwky.bsky.social! This is the best possible crossover in my life and I am SO THRILLED

“The termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for this administration” My NEH grant has been terminated Incredible when the funding for your book about the educational culture wars is cut as a result of the educational culture wars You can’t say history isn’t relevant

A bit of professional news, amid chaotic newsfeeds. I have spent the last ten (!) years at UNT, and love it. But I accepted a new position, and in August I will be a professor of history at Texas A&M. It is hard to leave, but I am excited for next steps and new possibilities.

My husband's new book, Willing Warriors: A New History of the Education Culture Wars, is available for pre-order! And distressingly timely. Check it out! @schoolfuss.bsky.social

When you say yes to an interview for the "evil witches" substack with no real context, and it is ends up being one of the smartest, most enjoyable interviews you've done. She even added links to some primary sources!

A California uni bought me a plane ticket to give a talk next month, which opted me into their travel alert system. So now I get weekly automated alerts warning me against my upcoming travel to Texas (aka my ticket back home). Fair enough, alert system, fair enough.