Rachel Louise Moran

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 organized the "Medicine Crossing Borders: Immigration and Health" panel for Oct. 9. It is open to all who register and features an incredible line-up of scholars: Eram Alam (Harvard), William Lopez (Michigan), Joel Daniel Olea-Calixto (UC Davis), and Andre Rosario (Rutgers). Please join us!

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.

Tenure-Track, Assistant Professor of Environmental History in College Station, TX for Texas A&M University, Department of History Exciting opportunity in College Station, TX for Texas A&M University, Department of History as a ...

Historians, please share these two exciting new positions in the Texas A&M History Department:

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Congratulations! This is really interesting and important, of course for fitness history folks but also for anyone interested in methods. So much to think through here.

Historians call this "positive eugenics." Policies that encourage "normal" people (however that idea is conceived at a particular time) to have more kids. The sister to that is "negative eugenics." Laws that prohibits "unfit" people from having kids. One often does not exist without the other.

Page of U Chicago press history catalog

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!)

‘Sliding into an abyss’: experts warn over rising use of AI for mental health support Therapists say they are seeing negative impacts of people increasingly turning to AI chatbots for help

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.

Journal of Social History book review, title page of a journal review

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.

Preordered!! Such a glaring gap in the literature, I’m really excited to read it. Do you know yet if it will also be an audiobook?

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

The Politics of Penetration: Sexual Self-Fulfillment and the G-Spot in 1980s America, Rachel Louise Moran

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

Uncovering the History of Postpartum Depression A Conversation with Historian Rachel Louise Moran

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!
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#UPMississippi #Throughline #EducationHistory

Juneteenth memories from Baylor’s oral history archives

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

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It is so much cultural anxiety jam packed in one page, def saving for students. What is Suzy doing with a grill, though?!?

This is amazing. What year is it from?

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.

Postpartum depression inventory in used book with check mark next to “I am afraid that I might harm myself in order to escape this pain”

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

greeting card congratulations on all your citations sorry they only temporarily quell the feelings of inadequecy and despair

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.

‘You should be worried': Small town NH library has funds pulled by federal government A rollback in humanities funding is threatening years of progress to expand a small library in Mont Vernon, New Hampshire.

"The NEH’s entire budget is about $200 million — less than what the Department of Defense spends every six hours. And yet its reach touches towns that rarely see federal investment in education and culture."

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

Congrats back at you! They actually remind us in the letter that BUDGETARILY we are not fulls until 9/1, hah, but because I am changing universities before then I will be leaning into my months as a full here anyhow, outlook sig and all.

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 that a student loved my book; shameless self promotion because academia and capitalism

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.

Citation for book about Texas watershed

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