Rachel Louise Moran

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The Sexologist Who Unlocked the Female Orgasm Fifty years ago, a controversial writer named Shere Hite taught us how to talk about sex and pleasure, selling books by the millions. Why do so few people know her name today?

Such an honour to have my book 'The Book that Taught the World to Orgasm and then Disappeared' written up in the @newyorker.com.

I've loved this mag since I was 12 and made my dad explain the articles to me.

A thoughtful, voicey review by Margaret Talbot:
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‘Perk Up Your Looks and You Along With It’: Postpartum Depression and the Body in 1980s and 1990s US Self-Help Books Abstract. Using four postpartum self-help books published in the 1980s and 1990s US, I examine the advice that women could improve their ‘unruly’ postpartu

My new article for the Social History of Medicine is online! 'Perk Up Your Looks and You Along With It’: Postpartum Depression and the Body in 1980s and 1990s US Self-Help Books will be in print later this year, in a special issue edited by the amazing @fabiolacreed.bsky.social and Hilary Marland.

An array of six book covers: Beth Linker, Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America Rachel Louise Moran, Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America Christina Ramos, Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment Christian Warren, Starved for Light: The Long Shadow of Rickets and Vitamin D Deficiency Travis A. Weisse, Health Freaks: America’s Diet Champions and the Specter of Chronic Illness Harry Yi-Jui Wu, Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization

SHORT-LISTED!
So proud to learn that AAHM has short-listed "Starved for Light" for the George Rosen Prize, along with books from @bethlinker.bsky.social , @rachellouisemoran.bsky.social , @xtinaramos.bsky.social , @travisaweisse.bsky.social , and Harry Yi-Jui Wu.
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Ensures that all the diseases covered by the previous immunization schedule will still be available to anyone who wants them through Affordable Care Act insurance plans and federal insurance programs, including Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Vaccines for Children program. Families will not have to purchase them out of pocket. Among peer nations, the U.S. will continue to offer the most childhood vaccines for free to those who want them.

Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them

Opinion | This Is the Damage Kennedy Has Done in Less Than a Year

“This year’s flu vaccine has proved an imperfect match to the currently circulating strains. New shots, based on mRNA technology, would have one day enabled us to avoid this kind of misfire. But the nation’s leaders have imperiled that future with the decisions they made this year.”

Come be my colleague at Texas A&M! I am excited to share this ad for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of U.S. History (any period) with expertise at the intersection of law and science, technology, or medicine. Please share widely with qualified folks jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69627

A banner that reads: Early Career Researcher: First Book PrizeOxford University Press proudly announces that submissions for the annual First Book Prize for Early Career Researchers will be open between 1-31 January 2026.Explore the information page for submission details.

Oxford University Press @academic.oup.com is pleased to announce that the First Book Prize will open for submissions in Jan 2026. The prize offers up to 10 early-career researchers the opportunity to publish their first academic book fully open access on Oxford Academic, with the full OA fee waived.

Most Popular Recipes Archives You want the tried-and-trues! Well, here they are. Some of our most popular recipes, the best of the best curries, soups, casseroles, and more.

Another vote for sally's baking addiction, recipes are very clear and the result is always good. pinchofyum.com/recipes/popu... also has great stuff.

Come be my colleague at Texas A&M! I am excited to share this ad for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of U.S. History (any period) with expertise at the intersection of law and science, technology, or medicine. Please share widely with qualified folks jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69627

Image of Blue audiobook at its sale price

The audiobook for Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America is $2.41 on audible, at 86% off… rough for my ego BUT amazing news for anyone who hasn’t bought it yet!

Just learned about a couple books I NEED rn via this great list.

Elon Musk is set to make more than every U.S. elementary teacher combined See how your profession stacks up against Musk’s pay. By Alyssa Fowers and Leslie Shapiro

Every elementary school teacher On average, Musk will make $3 billion more per year than the 1.4 million elementary school teachers in the U.S. combined. Each figure represents 1,500 elementary school teachers. Together, they made $97 billion last year

Humans are bad at big numbers. Which makes it easier for billionaires (and trillionaires) to get away with hoarding wealth. Because most people just can't comprehend how much money that is.

So, I appreciate this WaPo effort to help people visualize what ridiculous amounts of wealth really mean.

The vast body of research that Ken Burns relied upon to make his new documentary on the American Revolution would be practically impossible to be produced today, what with the defunding of humanistic scholarship, the collapse of stable academic jobs, the attack on public history & academic freedom.🗃️

Sharing my recent article from the Journal of the History of Sexuality, "The Politics of Penetration: Sexual Self-Fulfillment and the G-Spot in 1980s America." It is the first piece I have published from my new project, and it is great to have it out in the world (such as the world is).

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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Great read

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.

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)