New book in the works means it's time to refresh the website! www.anyajabour.com

A student had a great question in my women's history class. What do we know about the MEN accused of witchcraft in early America? If somebody has written about this, I've missed it. Let me know where I should start!

"The 'feminist killjoy' stereotype is as timely—and misleading—now as it was then." A review of Sara Catterall's new biography of Amelia Bloomer by @hottycouture.bsky.social

Two of my books are in here, and tons of articles and reviews. Check it out and join the fight!

Finally emerging from the Covid cave. Right before I tested positive, I sent the ms to my editor.

Rewriting the epilogue to the book… sometimes I hate writing relevant history!

Amazing panel on "The Intermediaries and Their Allies" with @bschillace.brandyschillace.com and River Watson for Missoula Pride 2025 yesterday! Full (auto-captioned) recording available! www.facebook.com/MissoulaComm...

I'm starting off No Kings Day writing about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911, in which 146 workers--most of them teenaged girls and young women--lost their lives to corporate greed and corrupt politicians. www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheel

Missoulians, check out this amazing event for Pride! facebook.com/events/s/the...

Has anyone made a starter pack of folks on TPUSA’s Professor Watchlist?

I’ve been searching for a reader (as opposed to a reviewer) of Katharine Bement Davis’s FACTORS IN THE SEX LIFE OF TWENTY-TWO HUNDRED WOMEN for 2 years. Finally, revisiting Joanne Passet’s bio of Jeannette Foster, the Kinsey Institute’s official librarian, I found the proverbial “smoking gun!”

Hello my #autistic #actuallyautistic #ND and #disability friends. I am putting together a starter pack on Autism/ND/disability platforms—I am also happy to add any individuals who would like to be included. Please make recs! We need community to fight RFK Jr.🧪♿️ go.bsky.app/wbCudt

The tentative title of my f/c book about Katharine Bement Davis is SEX MATTERS, a paraphrase from her quote "matters of sex" + an assertion that sex (sexual desire, sexual education, sexual study, etc.) is significant. But anti-trans folk are using the hashtag to assert primacy of sex (vs. gender).

My mission this week: Read @bschillace.brandyschillace.com's THE INTERMEDIARIES, write about Europeans who launched the scientific study of sex and the queer civil rights movement, and document Katharine Bement Davis’s role in it all! #sexmatters #intermediaries

AOC: The math is not adding up. Their claim is that one million undocumented people are on Medicaid. So why are they trying to cut 13.7 million Americans off their healthcare?

UMontana WGSS writing retreat is awesome as usual!

Trump: “Maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls…They don’t need 250 pencils, they can have 5.” Also Trump: accepts new Air Force One worth $400M from Qatari royal family.

Why is this story not in an American paper Let’s tell more stories of how responsible governance can benefit more people and give them increased opportunities, instead of the supposed inevitably of the oligarchs having everything there is www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"So the fact that the city of Troy is getting a GIFT, FREE OF CHARGE, of a beautiful giant wooden horse..."

📢 Extended Deadline: May 31 📢 Still time to submit your proposals on all things long 18th century. Join us in Regina this October. www.csecs.ca/en/calls-for...

Because of course!

Happy Mother’s Day for mothers and others, and your annual reminder that mothering takes many forms in today’s world—and that’s nothing new! Read more about women’s caregiving in historical context here: theconversation.com/childless-ca...

Last call for high schoolers to apply for a FREE week-long program in US CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY at UMontana!!! (Relevant, much?) Priority deadline is May 15! www.umt.edu/history/summ...

Yikes!

Let’s keep the context up front. In early April masses of NEH grants were terminated as “an urgent priority.” Those included grants that fund 50 state humanities councils, which do community-based work all across the country. And rigorously peer-reviewed grants to individual scholars & orgs.

Also 47’s charming Easter message! I mean, I realize policies are more important than politeness, but the sheer incivility of the SC rep and the self/styled president leave me gasping. And, there is a link between the lack of basic manners and the cruel public policies: a total disregard for others.

Hey, #histmed, #histgender, #histwomen, #histsex folks, as OAH has extended deadline to April 29, anybody want to join me for a session on "Sex/Ed: Sex Education and Sexual Diversity in US History"? Thinking of a traditional paper session although I'm open to another format.

Pitches are now open for our June roundtable: The Losses.

The Society for Historians of the Early American Republic is asking the public to help them track changes the Trump Admin is making to history-- in national parks, websites, wherever. Please share-- and please contribute! thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/09/t...

‪Liette Gidlow‬ ‪@profgidlow.bsky.social‬ @jwomenshistory.bsky.social welcomes applications for 2025 Scholars Research Grants to support travel, research, or writing in women's and gender history. Deadline 23 May 25. 🗃️ See jwomenshistory.org/announcements/ for more information. Please repost.

World Pride, btw, is coming up in just a few weeks. worldpridedc.org

At 5:00 PM PST, join us for Sunday’s viewing of Tombstone with #hatm You’re a daisy if you do!

Montana's anti-trans bathroom ban is BLOCKED by the courts. The judge finds that the ban was "motivated by animus" and that it showed no evidence that it protects safety and privacy.

At #handsoff Missoula with about 4k protesters!

Just in time for me to build my reading list for my fall grad seminar on Body Politics in the Body Politic!

HANDS OFF HISTORY!

NEW: After cancelling nearly all projects on trans health, the Trump admin has now directed the NIH to study the negative consequences of transitioning. This will create “a distorted research ecosystem where only politically favorable findings are permitted to exist”, researcher Harry Barbee says.

I will be restoring truth and sanity to American history by teaching a new version of my graduate seminar, "US Women's History—Body Politics in the Body Politic: Sex/Body/Reproduction" this coming fall, and by proposing a new course on "Queer in America" for Fall 2026.

Indeed.

Important reminder!

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

Colleagues: If you're teaching this Spring or next Fall, please let me know if I can help. Happy to talk with you & your students about immigration, free speech, ideological exclusion & deportation, Cold War/McCarthyism, War on Terror, & "Threat of Dissent." 🗃️ www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Today, while cleaning up dog poo in my yard, I saw the first butterfly of the year. Make of it what you will!

Tragic.

Chart of cumulative protests reported from Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2017 vs 2025:

Oh hello there, Bluesky. Did you know I have a new book coming out in April? Contested Curriculum: LGBTQ History Goes to School (Rutgers UP) is the history of bringing LGBTQ-inclusive history education to US K-12 schools--and some lessons learned for our current, um, moment: bit.ly/4iHiz81

History UK are recruiting disabled historians (and historians who work on disability history) to take part in focus groups to inform their fantastic Disability and History Project - do consider signing up! www.history-uk.ac.uk/projects/his...

Our museum is hiring a new Director of Collections if you or someone you know is interested! aam-us-jobs.careerwebsite.com/job/beatrice...