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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hmm its almost as if it were never about "returning the issue of abortion to the legislative branch" 🤔

Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My department is hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor of Public History! I am on the committee so please let me know if you have questions and please feel free to share! Job ID 303951. campus.kennesaw.edu/faculty-staf...

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We are coming up on the 5 year anniversary of Dobbs. A group of us are writing something. Stay tuned!

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A happy book update. Got a very positive reader report back that used words like "an exceptional book" 😭😭 have made some big edits and will do one more round with a developmental editor in the coming weeks. But we are almost there...

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Dr. Emily Hamilton-Honey @hermioneclone.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

U.S. Women's Historians! The Matilda Josyln Gage Center is having an online quilt raffle and silent auction as part of their annual Award Ceremony and fundraiser. If you have the means to contribute, they would certainly appreciate the support. #WomenAlsoKnowHistory www.matildajoslyngage.org/award

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Award — Matilda Joslyn Gage Center

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Always appreciate the sharp analysis of @amandamarcotte.bsky.social I'll add this about Erika Kirk: You, ma'am, are no Phyllis Schlafly.

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Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I'm chairing this search committee for an assistant prof of the history of science/science, tech, and society! Applications due September 1. Please be in touch with any questions, DMs open and grao at american edu

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

PSA! 1. follow @autonomynews.co. you'll get sharp reporting from two of the best in the biz: @garnethenderson.com and @susanrinkunas.com. 2. Susan B. Anthony herself was anti-Comstock law 🙄 3. The Comstock Act was never meant to be an abortion ban. Comstock himself said it. These folks are delulu.

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Anthony is not even on the record whatsoever about being against abortion, as “pro-life,” or in favor of strict abortion. She was anti-Comstock. This SBA group is so full of it. Anthony was a suffragist, not an abortion crusader. Its wielding the worst kind of history because its flat WRONG

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The thing that is so frustrating (having just finished writing an entire damn book about the suffragists and their views on abortion and birth control) is that Susan B Anthony herself was no fan of the Comstock Act! This is just...Grrrr.

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Historians of motherhood etc. I hope one of us writes something on the Lindsay Clancy trial and its antecedents. Just tragedy upon tragedy.

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Trying to decide if I should turn my attention to this side article I have and submit it finally before the semester starts or if I should "rest" (ha 🙄 the next couple weeks is just catching up on all the other stuff that has to be done that I ignored for 6 weeks).

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Update: NYT subscriptions now have *unlimited* gift links. Suggestion: if you share NYT stories because you'd like to see them widely read, pls consider using a gift link. NYT gift links retain their gift nature for 30 days Washington Post gift links – 2 weeks WSJ AFAIK expire only when bitrot hits

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Just sent to my editor at Rutgers!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh 😱 also here is a pic of probably only half the secondary sources I used to write this thing!!!

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The rage this makes me feel after sweating over and painfully extracting from my brain every single one of my 85k words for literally more than half a decade at this point. What a loser.

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Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Is it a “why question” or a “how question” is on day 1 of methods for undergrads

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Proving the null is how scientific method seeks to avoid selection bias, but historiography is different. The work is not hypothesis-driven in the same way. The need to avoid selection bias remains, but the path is different.

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

My undergrads get such an earful about this yes

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Birth control before the Pill: "buy a pound of white petrolatum. Mix it thoroughly with 2 Oz boracic acid. Before intercourse, take a piece of cotton about the size od a large egg, put a string around its center, dip...insert. afterwards...remove by aid of string." 🫣

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It's nearly 1am on a Friday night but pretty sure I just typed the last sentence of my entire book manuscript. A few more light edits on two chapters but the whole manuscript of Women's Votes, Doctors' Rights: The Making of the American Birth Control Movement now exists in some 85k words. 😳

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 16/07/2026

At the very end of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s Wednesday confirmation hearing, Texas Senator Ted Cruz got Blanche to commit to taking a step that could upend abortion access in all 50 states. The latest from our colleagues at @autonomynews.co:

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Todd Blanche just opened the door to national abortion ban

In his confirmation hearings, the attorney general nominee committed to reviewing Biden-era guidance on the Comstock Act.

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Great blue heron and friends, Anna Maria Island, FL IG: j.lulu_photography

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Charlotte Canning @cmcanning.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

So much time wasted fighting AI when we could be educating

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The number of hours I have spent attempting to redesign my asynchronous online courses to avoid AI is unbelievable.

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 11/07/2026

woof ≈80% of assignments this summer term have essentially been just raw chatgpt/claude output, including assignments that required designing stuff in illustrator/affinity/canva. The battle is lost for asynchronous online courses.

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Whyyyyy is it that the last 30 pages of your book are the hardest to write? 🙄

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Also MAD respect to my fellow World/Medieval/Ancient historians who have to also employ years and years of archaelogy and/or international archives because you are the Next Level Real MVPs, and as a modern Americanist I bow down to you.

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

As Lauren articulates, reading 5-10 secondary sources and visiting a single archive isn't 'research' in the sense of what goes in to actually tracking down and tracing out histories. It takes a hell of a lot of time and a hell of a lot of work and I don't think that's widely recognised. 2/

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Dr Jessica Parr @provatlantic.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Anyone who is mad about the appropriation of @rachelcleves.bsky.social 's research should go buy her book and encourage others to do the same: bookshop.org/p/books/char...

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Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America

A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

most authors wouldn't assume they could freely adapt a novel so why do they think that a historical monograph is fair game? they think that a history is a just conveniently packaged set of facts, and their job is to write the story—but the story is already there! it's been told by the historian!

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Rachel Hope Cleves @rachelcleves.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Here is my response to D&Q's statement about my open letter:

D&Q packaged and marketed Walden’s book as an independent work with no acknowledgment that it was an adaptation of my book. There is exactly one sentence in the notes at the back that acknowledges the existence of my book. Walden has repeatedly presented the work as based on her research, even going so far as to claim on CBC that she’s the only person who’s read all the letters, and saying in a video she made for the Henry Sheldon Museum that she worked exclusively from the diaries and letters. Readers of reviews, people who’ve listened to her CBC interview, and readers of the book have no way to know that she adapted my work. Many people who bought Walden’s book have commented exactly that on social media. Additionally, D&Q took my title, and cover image. I’ve heard from readers that when they tried to buy my book, bookstore owners have pointed them towards Walden’s graphic novel. In the future when people search for “Charity and Sylvia” on the internet the algorithm will point them to Walden, who has a far bigger platform as a cartoonist than I will ever have as an academic. In short, Walden and D&Q are profiting off eight years of my labor and pretending otherwise. It pains me to have to correct the record this way. Walden was initially given a grant to work exclusively from the papers at the Sheldon. Instead, as her website makes clear, she read my book twice closely and outlined and drafted, then went to look at documents to supplement the story I had written. My book is based on research at over 20 archives and historical sites. I am the author of the story. Walden took that story and illustrated it beautifully, but she and D&Q should have acknowledged the adaptation and they should compensate me.

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Rant thread incoming. I have been thinking about this for days now and I am so mad about it on your behalf, Rachel. First, your book is incredible and I assign parts of it or your article almost every semester...

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

a lot of writers and podcasters need to learn that they are not entitled to freely adapt any book they take a liking to. do you want to tell an existing story in a new medium? cool. talk to the author. collaborate with them if they want. license it if they're interested. or start from scratch.

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I'm so upset by this. It happens all the time but still. As historians we spend forever painstakingly reproducing the past from scraps (literal ones in this case) only to see others swoop in and claim or work as their own. Don't do this to us, apologize if you have!

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 24/06/2026

OTD in 2022 the US Supreme Court overturned abortion rights. Months beforehand, historians @kellyodonn.bsky.social and @lmacthompson1.bsky.social argued that if Roe was lost, we must go back to the beginning, turning to history to see what it can reveal about potential paths forward.

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It Doesn’t Have to Be the End for US Abortion Rights

In the US, abortion rights are under threat. But, as Kelly O'Donnell and Lauren MacIvor Thompson explore, if Roe is lost, we must go back to the beginning, turning to history and what it can reveal ab...

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

This is so tragic. :( an absolute giant in our discipline.

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Cathleen D. Cahill @cathleendcahill.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

For more of Mary Church Terrell's story, I recommend Alison Parker's Unceasing Militant from @uncpress.bsky.social but also Mary Church Terrell's autobiography, A Colored Woman in a White World. Terrell kept fighting and picketed segregated restaurants in the 1950s #HATM archive.org/details/colo...

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A colored woman in a white world : Terrell, Mary Church, 1863-1954 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

xxxvi, 436 pages : 22 cm

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Rebecca DeWolf, PhD @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

If you want to learn more about this complicated history and the #ERA, check out my book #GenderedCitizenship. (5) #HATM

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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

You wouldn't know from #suffs or most published suffrage histories but 1920 was not the end of the suffrage movement in the U.S. The 19th Amendment simply did not apply to the colonial possessions of Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. #hatm www.oah.org/process/prie...

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Thanks for having me!!! I learned a lot. Now I want to have another suffrage conference where we get together and share all the most minute, most obscure facts that we know about suffrage.

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Rebecca DeWolf, PhD @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

#ERA time! HOWEVER, Alice Paul and the NWP did not instantly pursue or (for that matter) even come up with the idea for the ERA during the immediate aftermath of the Nineteenth Amendment. (1) #HATM

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