Look what came today!!! Thanks so much to my whole team @hurstpublishers.bsky.social , to my talented agent @aannis.bsky.social, and to all the historians who have generously shared their work with me. Out March 12.

Attention Early Americanists: just learned of this Early Black Boston Digital Almanac! what a cool resource! ebbda.org

now who wants to make one for NYC? 😁

In light of this, I would like to share a GoFundMe that will aid a family who lost their Altadena home with whom I have a personal connection. Please consider donating if you are able: www.gofundme.com/f/support-th...

And a note from Brooke: “While I am grateful that the Huntington Library remained unharmed by the recent wildfires in Los Angeles, I am deeply sorrowful for those who experienced devastation in the city...

You can also read her recent article “‘The helpless French girl’: Seduction narratives in a nineteenth-century abortion trial” in the July 2024 issue of Gender & History: doi-org.proxy1.library.jhu.edu/10.1111/1468...

Brooke is at work on a book under contract with University of Virginia Press, which she won through the 2024 Best Dissertation Prize from the Society of Historians of the Early American Republic.

She was part of a line-up of 12 scholars working on the history of abortion in the United States who gave public-facing talks in response to Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson, the Supreme Court case that overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.

On January 17, Dr. Brooke Mai (LifexCode Project Manager) presented a paper entitled “‘Endangering the Life of the Mother: Social Implications of Medical Theories of Abortion in the 1830s” at the Huntington Library in Los Angeles, CA.

Just learned about the Health Story Hub, a searchable collection of stories and materials for teaching with and about health narratives developed by profs from Lewis & Clark and U of Iowa. Seems like a great resource for historians of medicine!
healthstoryhub.lib.uiowa.edu

Alito in the Dobbs decision: "Are we to believe that the hundreds of lawmakers whose votes were needed to enact these [abortion criminalization] laws were motivated by hostility to Catholics and women?"

Me: [nods emphatically] Yes.

Hollywood has put together a new podcast about People v. Levi Weeks, an 1800 NYC murder trial: www.teenvogue.com/story/alliso...