Lauren MacIvor Thompson

The Nursing Clio Reader: Histories of Sex, Reproduction, and Justice

Look what came in the mail yesterday!! It’s real!

How is still July! It is July 28,763rd, I swear

@andrewbramlett.bsky.social

Conference - SHGAPE Call for Papers The Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era is delighted to host its first stand-alone conference, June 4-6, 2026, at Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois. We we...

U.S. history friends - check out the first standalone conference that SHGAPE is hosting in Chicago in June 2026! Please consider submitting a paper/panel etc!
www.shgape.org/shgape-confe...

thx so much, Lauren! This was the first abortion case I researched and it just drew me in. In the book I wrote more about Eliza Wilson but Lindfield really grabbed me... glad to give her space here.

L is for Spencer Lindfield L is for Spencer Lindfield.

This piece today by @maryfissell.bsky.social is so fascinating! Spencer Lindfield was a British midwife and abortionist. "It was a dreaded fate. Mrs. Lindfield offered better options."
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me, the actual average professor: PLEASE for the love of baby Jesus and kittens, stop Chat-GPTing the historical essay on the ideological influences that produced Matt Walsh. And use Chicago-style footnotes!!

We are so excited to see author copies for #dolessharm start to arrive. We’re so proud of this volume and our amazing authors like Lauren. If you’re a historian of health or medicine you need this book! #histmed #histnursing #histpsych #ethics

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Oh my gosh look what came in the mail!!! Thank you Kylie Smith and Courtney Thompson-- such an honor to contribute to this @drkyliesmith.bsky.social @cethompson.bsky.social

Love in a Time of Revolution | Los Angeles Review of Books Torsa Ghosal speaks with Nishant Batsha about his new novel, “A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart.”

Stunning new book by author Nishant Batsha: "A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart."
"When I was writing, Roe v. Wade was about to be overturned...I worked with Lauren Thompson, a historian of abortion and contraception, to make sure the representation was accurate"
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Law Dork | Chris Geidner | Substack The Supreme Court, law, politics, and more. Click to read Law Dork, by Chris Geidner, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to resume agency mass-firing plans over the dissent of Justice Jackson, who criticized "this Court’s demonstrated enthusiasm for greenlighting this President’s legally dubious actions in an emergency posture."

More to come at Law Dork:

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Oh my gosh, take a pic. Yay tell them I sent you haha. The tour guide was very good too. We took a tour of the home and I thought she did an amazing job being extremely truthful about Clay and slavery.

-Indiana Jones and the Budget Cuts of Doom
-Indiana Jones and the Last Endowment
-Indiana Jones and the Phantom Faculty Line
-Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Capital Campaign
-Indiana Jones and the Golden Age of Deferred Maintenance
-Indiana Jones and the Death of the Humanities

Indiana Jones will be played by a rotating cast of three adjuncts who answer to two different associate deans

Would so wear: "Free soil, free labor, free men"

As a US historian I had to get this shirt at the Ashland gift shop in Lexington.

The "Jefferson Council" is the "organization" (made up of aggrieved white men obsessed with TJ) partially responsible for wielding its political influence to oust Jim Ryan at UVA. They are congratulating themselves in an email that the University will now be...free from political influence.

I don't know what to tell AI dorks who want to remake the book but humans figured out how to organize ideas themselves on paper (rocks, wood, wax, etc.) themselves for probably longer than there have been Homo sapiens (300K Yrs). It works.

Your app that "customizes" books an't changing that.

UVA President James Ryan Caved to MAGA—and They Forced Him Out Anyway Ryan had not fought Trump on DEI and other matters. His forced ouster proves that no capitulation is enough.

I wrote:

“Jefferson dreamed of forging a grand, vibrant Athens on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. Instead, in its third century, the United States seems a lot more like Sparta.”

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UVA President James Ryan Caved to MAGA—and They Forced Him Out Anyway Ryan had not fought Trump on DEI and other matters. His forced ouster proves that no capitulation is enough.

@sivav.bsky.social has articulated what has just happened so perfectly. Thank you for writing this. As an alum, I am devastated and disgusted.

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the uva faculty senate asks the board of visitors to condemn the demands from the DOJ that led to ryan’s resignation & asks for a meeting with the BOV to clarify the situation

Open Letter on Academic Freedom at UVA Open Letter from Members of the Faculty of the University of Virginia In light of reporting that officials at the Department of Justice are pressuring University of Virginia President Jim Ryan to re...

More than 100 UVA faculty (and counting) have signed an open letter condemning political interference in the university. The forced installation of a new president under these circumstances will cast a shadow on teaching and research. Read here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Thread. @jeisinger.bsky.social at @propublica.org has an interesting theory about the University of Virginia’s surrender to Trump today. UVA evaded costly litigation — over DEI, a target of white-right Republicans — and sacrificed its president, a sign of its willingness to change its culture.

"Virginia’s economy and prosperity depend on the strength and integrity of our higher education system. It is outrageous that officials in the Trump Department of Justice demanded the Commonwealth’s globally recognized university remove President Ryan—a strong leader who has served UVA honorably and moved the university forward—over ridiculous ‘culture war’ traps. Decisions about UVA’s leadership belong solely to its Board of Visitors, in keeping with Virginia’s well-established and respected system of higher education governance. This is a mistake that hurts Virginia’s future."

My statement with @markwarner.bsky.social on reporting that President Jim Ryan was pressured to resign from the University of Virginia by the Trump Administration:

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