Research

Courses

Organizations

Selected Publications

Books:

Conceiving the Future: Pronatalism, Reproduction and the Family in the United States, 1890-1938. Gender and American Culture Series. University of North Carolina Press, 2007.

When We Were Free to Be: Looking Back at a Children’s Classic and the Difference It Made. Lori Rotskoff and Laura L. Lovett, Editors (University of North Carolina Press, Submitted for 2012 publication)

Articles:
"Child's Play: Boy's Toys, Women's Work, and "Free Children"," in When We Were Free to Be: Looking Back at a Children’s Classic and the Difference It Made.  Lori Rotskoff and Laura L. Lovett, Editors (University of North Carolina Press, Submitted for 2012 publication).

“Pronatalism,” Encyclopedia of Motherhood. Andrea O’Reilly and J. Geoffrey Golson, Editors (New York, NY: SAGE, 2010), 1028-1029.

“Family,” Encyclopedia of American Disability History. Susan Burch, Editor (New York, NY: Facts on File, 2009).

“Age: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis,” Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. 1 (2008), 89-90.

"'Fitter Families for Future Firesides': Florence Sherbon and Popular Eugenics," The Public Historian 29 (2007), 69-85.

“The Popeye Principle: Selling Child Health in the First Nutrition Crisis,” Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law 30 (2005) 803-838.

"Rooted in the Soil: Family Ideals, Land Reclamation and Irrigation Resettlement as Welfare in the United States, 1897-1933", in Families of a New World: Familialism and the Process of State-Making. Lynne Haney and Lisa Pollard, editors. New York, NY: Routledge, 2003, pp. 85-98.

"Land Reclamation as Family Reclamation: The Family Ideal in George Maxwell's Reclamation and Resettlement Campaigns, 1897-1933," Social Politics 7 (2000), 80-100.

"'African and Cherokee By Choice': Race and Resistance Under Legalized Segregation," American Indian Quarterly 22 (1998), 203-229.

Excerpted as “Invoking Ancestors,” in The Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity in the United States, Second Edition, Joan Ferrante and Prince Brown, Jr., editors. New York, NY: Prentice Hall, 2001, pp. 198-203.

Reprinted as "'African and Cherokee By Choice': Race and Resistance Under Legalized Segregation," in Confounding the Color Line: the Indian-Black experience in North America, James Brooks, editor. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2002, pp. 192-222.

Book Reviews:

"The Rhetoric of Family in US Politics: Review of Natasha Zaretsky's No Direction Home: The American Family and the Fear of National Decline, 1968-1980," Tikkun (2011).

"Review of Rebecca Kluchin, Fit to Be Tied: Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in the America, 1950-1980,” The American Historical Review 116 (2011), 840-841.

"Review of Mark Largent, Breeding Contempt: The History of Coerced Sterilization in the United States,” The American Historical Review 114 (2009), 776-777.

“Review of Nancy Ordover, American Eugenics: Race, Queer Anatomy, and the Science of Nationalism,” Isis 96 (2005), 150-151.

"Review of Stephen Selden, Inheriting Shame: The Story of Eugenics and Racism in America,” Isis 92 (2000), 243-244.

 

 

This page is maintained by Laura Lovett. Last updated 11/2/11.

ON LEAVE, 2011-2012

History 151: Development of American Civilization Since 1876 (offered Spring 2004)

History 200: New Approaches to the Study of History - The Scopes Trial (offered Fall 2007)

History 388: US Women's History to 1890 (offered Fall 2003)

History 389: US Women's History Since 1890 (offered Spring 2011)

History 393S: Topics in the History of Sexuality in the U.S. (offered Spring 2004)

History 397F: Ideas of Normalcy in the United States (offered Fall 2005)

History 397U: History of Youth in America, 1865-Present (offered Fall 2012)

History 594F: U.S. Immigrant Women (offered Fall 2006)

History 603: Modern American Historiography (offered Spring 2004)

History 697I: U.S. Women's History (offered Fall 2010)

History 697Z: History of Childhood and Youth (offered Fall 2012)

History 791: Seminar in U.S. Women's and Gender History (offered Spring 2010)

Honors 391D: American Eugenics (offered Spring 2010)

Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth

 

Valley Women's History Collaborative

The Valley Women's History Collaborative (VWHC) is an active group of students, scholars, and community volunteers dedicated to researching, collecting, preserving, and publicizing the history of women committed to social justice for women in Hampshire, Franklin, and Hamden Counties of Western Massachusetts from the mid-1960s to the present.