This month I wrote about something a bit different for my column, and I loved every bit of it. Hope it gives you some enjoyment, too! www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2026/01/wome...

Here’s my last published piece for 2025 - thrilled that I was able to have something published every month this year, a first for me.

Today, my @satevepost.bsky.social column honors women veterans: www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/11/wome...

Surprised and pleased to report that Census.gov doesn’t seem to be violating the Hatch Act.

This month, it’s all witches in my @satevepost.bsky.social column: www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/10/wome...

Excellent piece, and the book referenced amongst this larger historiography of women’s history looks fab.

100. Here’s some of the history of parents (and others) doing just that: www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/09/wome...

To follow up on a comment I posted - the building at the entrance to Arlington is the Women’s Memorial, or the Women in Military Service for America Memorial. It’s housed in the hemicycle, built in the 30s as an entrance to Arlington but never really used that way: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militar...

DACOWITS is gone, after nearly 75 years of important, forward-thinking work about the role of women in national defense. Hegseth claims the group had a “divisive” “agenda,” but he’s wrong and severely misunderstands - intentionally so, I think - the role the committee has played historically.

For my column this month, I look at the history of special ed in the US: www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/09/wome...

My personal rule is to always check the new book display at the library. It took me to this fabulous find.

I love Ben’s commitment to sharing public scholarly writing - take a look at what’s in this week’s share! Includes my piece that coincides with the anniversary of the Voting Rights Act and the 19th amendment this month.

My August column is up @satevepost.bsky.social - www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/08/wome...

Did anyone else read this piece yet?? What if Everything We Know About Sacagawea Is Wrong? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/m...

If I hear one more higher ed professional say “we need to go back to blue books and pencils to keep students from using AI,” I’m going to throw the entire industry out the window. We cannot continue rely on ableist practices, period, the end.

I’m a historian and a K-12 educator and I use AI. My Bluesky is full of people I respect, all regularly posting about how they dislike AI and the people who use it. Many are in higher ed and/or the larger history field. So - we’re just alienating K-12 teachers and others who are using AI tools now?

What can we do against such reckless hate? Enjoy & share widely the solidarity with all the amazing work in my 231st #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from the last week. 🗃️ americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...

It’s small, but one of my favorite things is that I get to write a women’s history column each month. I love the research rabbit holes I go down, the stories I find, and the primary sources I discover. It’s not book 2but it’s what I have the ability to do right now, and it makes me very happy.

For this month’s @satevepost.bsky.social piece, I took a close look at the release of the polio vaccine in 1955: www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/06/wome...

💯. See Joy Buolomwini’s book or the documentary about her work, Coded Bias. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/670356...

I know my feed tends to include a lot of dumping on AI, and I get it, but are there really no other teachers or history PhDs on here playing with AI tools?

Serious question: is it just me, or are all the ICE officers men?

And some summer mornings, you open a book you’ve owned for 20 years, noticing something in it for the first time - a something that could, just maybe, lead to new research directions….

Or maybe - just maybe - you educate yourself on the namesakes and why they matter.

Today marks 71 years since the Brown v Board of Ed ruling. Learn more about it, its legacies, and the women behind it: www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/05/wome...

This month in my @satevepost.bsky.social column, read about the women lawyers at the Nuremberg Trial: www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/04/wome...

Here’s my latest piece, looking at the 1932 law that tried to make government smaller.

Contingent is such an important publication!

NEWS President Zelenskyy tells Fox News’ Bret Baier that he does not believe he owes President Trump an apology, as he didn’t do anything wrong.

Live from my childhood home in Charlottesville, I’ve just shared my 213th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Share widely & enjoy, all! 🗃️ americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...

Have you met these Black women leaders in US government? www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/02/wome...

Let’s talk about what happens next. The 6888th finished their work in Scotland in 3 months and then went to France that summer, serving in the same role there into the end of 1945 and early 1946. #HATM

I love the details from the women themselves at the end. Btw, Adams’ promotion at the end of the war - to Lt Colonel - was the highest you could go (in a practical sense) for women at that time - only one woman in the WAC could be a colonel, and that was the WAC director. #HATM

Omg yes!!!! I knew I forgot someone important!! So sorry, @katelanddeck.bsky.social! Go read her book too #HATM!

Note: it was not 2 WACs that were killed and not by UXB. There were 3: Mary H. Bankston, Mary Jewel Barlow and Dolores Mercedes Browne. #HATM

“We were able to match the scent with the state where the perfume was made and trace it back”. THAT is research! #HATM

Another downside of this movie is that is compressed Scotland and France, where the 6888th went that summer. The deaths of the women happened in France. #HATM

Btw, there’s primary source video footage of the 6888th: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:68...

If only we weren’t nearly 3 decades away from a female chaplain! www.army.mil/article/1224... #HATM

While we’re montaging, here are some titles on women’s military history: Leisa Meyer’s Creating GI Jane cup.columbia.edu/book/creatin... #HATM

Note how they use sign painting to signal our captain is now a Major #HATM

Personally, I would have centered this film more on Charity Adams, but I admit that I think it’s also good to see more of the 6888th’s individual experiences. #HATM

The moment when they realized just what the heck they were being asked to do. #HATM

And btw this isn’t a new problem. Happy to have convos about this going back to at least The Pacific! #HATM

AND HERE WE GO AGAIN WITH THE DEAD GUY! #HATM

I really don’t love the ongoing insistence that a woman’s war experience can only be understood in tandem with her relationship to men. I’ve made a couple of pitches on why it matters in how we tell war stories and undermines an important story like this #HATM

One challenge here is that the film compresses women’s training - we’re seeing them presumably at Fort Oglethorpe, GA, but most WACs trained at Des Moines, Iowa, first. For more on 6888th, see library of Congress: guides.loc.gov/6888th-centr...

Let me hit you all up with a little more on Black women’s military history: in the last year I’ve written a few articles of interest, like this one on Cathay Williams (much earlier): www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2024/04/she-... #HATM

Charity Adams giving the women personal care instructions may seem basic, but was an integral part of women’s training - regardless of race - before and after WW2. #HATM

One thing we don’t talk about enough is how Black women volunteered and then many of them were sent into the heart of the south for further training. #HATM