Book (single authored)
Women against Abortion: Inside the Largest Moral Reform Movement of the Twentieth Century. University of Illinois Press, 2017.
Selected Media Coverage of Women against Abortion
Andrea González-Ramírez, “16 Books on the Past, Present, and Future of Abortion,” The Cut (New York), June 6, 2022.
Marcia A. Zug, “The Value of Motherhood,” Times Literary Supplement, August 16, 2017.
Marcia Angell, “The Abortion Battlefield,” New York Review of Books, June 22, 2017.
Margaret Talbot, “Why It’s Become So Hard to Get an Abortion,” New Yorker, April 3, 2017.
Co-Edited Book
Co-editor w/Cornelia Dayton, Women’s America: Refocusing the Past, 9th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. The 10th edition is scheduled to be published in 2025.
In-progress
“Nursing a Revolution: Civil Rights, Feminism, and the American Nursing Profession, 1965-1990” (book manuscript)
Articles and Essays
“Filling the Unforgiving Minute with Sixty Seconds of Effort: Barbara Fassbinder, Nursing, and AIDS in the US, 1986-91.” Middle West Review 10(2): 205-25.
With Margaret Mary Downey, Clare Daniel, and Anne McGlynn-Wright, “Protect and Control: Coverture’s Logics across Welfare Policy and Abortion Laws,” Psychology of Women Quarterly 47(4): 478-93.
“Dobbs v. Jackson, One Year Later: An Abortion Historian’s View from 2023,” Perspectives on History, June 27, 2023.
“Pregnant People Were Once Citizens, Too,” in Roundtable: On the Threshold of a Post-Roe Era? The Past and Future of Abortion Rights in the United States, ed. Rebecca Jo Plant, Women and Social Movements, Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2022.
“Rethinking the Taxonomies of Civil Rights Work,” Journal of Urban History, 46(3): 654-62.
“Nurses and Hospital Abortions in the United States, 1967-1973,” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 73(4): 412-436.
“’How Come There’s Only Men Up There?’ Catholic Women’s Grassroots Anti-Abortion Activism,” The Journal of Women’s History 27(4): 38-61.
Book Chapters
Forthcoming: “Abortion after Roe,” for Cambridge History of Sexuality in the United States, eds. Jen Manion and Nicholas Syrett, Cambridge University Press.
“The Paradox of Violent Women in the US Antiabortion Movement,” in Womanhood(s) in the US: Cultural, Social and Political Conflicts in Achieving Equality since the 1920s, eds. Christen Brysen, Anne Legier, Amélie Ribieras, London: Routledge University Press, 2024.
Book Reviews
Review of The Trials of Madame Restell: Nineteenth-Century America’s Most Infamous Female Physician and the Campaign to Make Abortion a Crime, by Nicholas Syrett. Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books. January 2024.
Review of Abortion and the Law in America: ‘Roe v. Wade’ to the Present, by Mary Ziegler. American Journal of Legal History 60 (2020): 582-84.
Review of Birth Control Battles: How Race and Class Divided American Religion, by Melissa J. Wilde. Church History 89 (2020): 722-24.
Review of Women at the Wheel: A Century of Buying, Driving, and Fixing Cars, by Katherine J. Parkin. Journal of Social History, 53(1), 292-94.
Review of Big Sister: Feminism, Conservatism, and Conspiracy in the Heartland, by Erin Kemper. The Annals of Iowa, 78 (2019), 426-27.
Review of Reproductive Rights in the Age of Human Rights: Pro-Life Politics from Roe to Hobby Lobby, by Alisa Von Hagel and Daniela Mansbach. Law, Culture, and the Humanities, 14(1): 191-93.
Review of Reforming Medical Education: The University of Illinois College of Medicine, 1880-1920, by Winton U. Solberg. History of Education Quarterly, 50(2): 246-48.
Textbook Contribution
“The Triumph of the Right,” The American Yawp: A Free and Online, Collaboratively Built American History Textbook.
Guest Columns
“When States are Forced to Lie,” New Orleans Advocate, w/Cynthia Daniels, September 7, 2017.
“Struggling to Vote in the Big Easy,” Uptown Messenger, November 7, 2012.