Women, Gender, Sexuality

  • Held

    Lauren MacIvor Thompson | Mar 16, 2023

    Public discussions often fail to acknowledge the nuance of abortion’s history, a fact made painfully clear in last year's US Supreme Court decision.
  • Marion Thompson Wright (1902–62)

    Graham Hodges | Feb 28, 2023

    This Long Overdue tribute honors historian Marion Thompson Wright, who died on October 26, 1962.
  • AHA Member Spotlight: Charlene J. Fletcher

    Matthew Keough | Feb 17, 2023

    Charlene J. Fletcher is an affiliate faculty in Africana studies and curatorial director at Indiana University—Purdue University Indianapolis and Conner...
  • AHA Member Spotlight: Susan Ferentinos

    Matthew Keough | Jan 27, 2023

    Susan Ferentinos is a self-employed public history researcher, writer, and consultant. She lives in Port Townsend, Washington, and has been a member since 2016.
  • AHA Member Spotlight: Aimee Loiselle

    Matthew Keough | Dec 9, 2022

    Aimee Loiselle is an assistant professor of history at Central Connecticut State University. She lives in Springfield, Massachusetts, and has been a member since 2016.
  • Elizabeth York Enstam (1937–2022)

    Michael V. Hazel | Nov 30, 2022

    Elizabeth York Enstam died September 15, 2022, in Dallas, Texas, where she had lived for the past 54 years.
  • WAR Dolls

    Krista Grensavitch | Sep 28, 2022

    In the 1980s, education was one way feminists hoped to prevent child abuse and assault.
  • Where Are the Women?

    Amanda B. Moniz | Sep 1, 2022

    When women are missing from the history we tell, sometimes it’s because of how their stories were preserved and told in the past
  • Immigration, Wartime Trauma, and Planetary Science

    Rebecca L. West | Aug 25, 2022

    Read about the 2022–23 recipients of the J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship in American History, the Fellowship in Aerospace History, and...
  • The Better Roe

    Kara Dixon Vuic | Aug 10, 2022

    When Susan Struck fought being discharged for pregnancy from the US Air Force, it brought the right to choose into a different light. 

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