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Sometimes I don’t know what to say.
In both my grad class and my undergrad class this week we’re discussing Sharon Block’s Rape and Sexual Power in Early America. This is a book that goes over very well with college students, given...
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Who’s telling who to STFU at American universities? Observations on teaching...
Ah, yes: freedom of speech. What some really mean when they evoke it is, “my right to have my say and not have you talk back,” like all of those crybabies who have cancelled their appearances at...
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On Giving Tuesday, Support Planned Parenthood
There’s something going around on Twitter called Giving Tuesday, which sounds like an attempt to prick people’s consciences after the push to spend money on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Whatever! We...
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In order to prevent abortion clinic attacks, let’s get rid of abortion clinics.
No, I’m not arguing that we shut down access to abortion; quite the contrary. It’s the exiling of abortion care from private OB/GYN clinics and hospitals that imperils the safety of abortion providers...
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Teaching the sixties: what do you think?
My colleague and co-conspiritor in teaching History of Sexuality in America over the past several years, Ruth Alexander, has suggested that we develop and co-teach another course on the 1960s. She has...
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“Hillary, can you excite us?” The unresolved mommy problem of feminist...
Copyright Anne Taintor Jill Abramson, the former executive editor of the New York Times and a woman who has has her own struggles straddling the line between “revolutionary” and “the establishment,”...
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The best way to prevent pregnancy
Re: the recent silly advice from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about women and alcohol, Rebecca Solnit says: alcohol does not cause pregnancy, so obviously women should avoid men, not...
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The Cruel Shoes: Claire Underwood’s powerfully destabilizing stilettos
Here’s a fascinating read by Megan Garber of fictional First Lady Claire Underwood’s perma-stilettos in House of Cards: It is strange and striking that Claire Underwood, who is a human woman if also a...
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Race, sex, and voting rights in American history: again, the longue durée
Deez nuts! Hillary Clinton, running against a white man for the Democratic nomination, loses the support of white men. But in the end, does it really matter? When her opponent was a black man, she...
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Happy Easter/Pesach/Spring Equinox/_your festival here_! Enjoy an ad-free...
The whole gang here at Historiann HQ wish you and yours a quiet, ad-free holiday of your choice this spring. I’ve had such an overwhelmingly positive reaction about my decision not to provide content...
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Restroom panic! The solution is so obvious.
Sweet baby Jesus, please let public restrooms all become inclusive/family restrooms already. They’ve been a problem for many of us (if not most of us, at least once in a while) for years, including...
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“And I did other bad, naughty things”: Source for the history of early modern...
Since I’ve got another book in the bag, this summer is all about readin’ and reflectin’. I’ve never had a summer in which I was not engaged in writing a monograph for more than twenty years: first it...
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WIZ 301: Defense Against the Dark Arts, or, how universal design improves our...
Dump the blue books! The always-thoughtful David Perry of How Did We Get Into This Mess and on Twitter @Lollardfish) has given his last blue-book, in class, timed exam. Those of you who know his...
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“Pocahontas”: an insult, or an inspiring diplomat and politician?
Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) I’ve been meaning to write for weeks about Donald Trump’s nickname for Elizabeth Warren. As a historian who has written a few books that include some Algonquian (Eastern...
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“I am an investigative journalist, please take me seriously.”
We love your brave and adventurous journalism, Suki Kim! Click away from this blog immediately and go read Suki Kim’s angry and disturbing article “The Reluctant Memoirist” about the marketing and...
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Zara Anishanslin on African American women’s voices and bodies in colonial...
Today we feature a guest post from Historiann friend and colleague Zara Anishanslin (@ZaraAnishanslin), an Assistant Professor of History and Art History at the University of Delaware. Her first book,...
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Three lessons on women’s leadership from inside an Ursuline convent
Esther Wheelwright, c.1763 (oil on canvas), at the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston. Modern and mostly secular folks probably wouldn’t think that religious people might teach us something about...
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Teaser Tuesday: How and why did Esther become Mali?
Yale University Press. 2016 We’re back again on another Tuesday with yet another free sample from my new book, The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright, this time from chapter 2, in which Esther is...
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Teaser Tuesday: Cannibalism, whaaaat?
James Peachey, ca. 1785, Library and Archives Canada Remember a few weeks back when I asked “What’s for breakfast in early New England?” Today’s Teaser Tuesday from my new book, The Many Captivities...
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