In the 1960s conservative Christian leaders like Billy James Hargis and his “Christian Crusade” defined the culture wars over sex...

Last month New Zealand broke new ground with a national policy of "Bereavement Leave" following miscarriage. This is a welcome...

Dr. Monique Tello, a primary care doctor and author, interviewed me on her blog: This month is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month,...

In her latest book, GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men’s Reproductive Health, sociologist Rene Almeling asks why all the public...

New Metaphors to Make Miscarriages Easier to Talk About, and Easier to Bear For someone who has been trying for a pregnancy, it is...

I wrote this letter to the editor of my local newspaper after my community experienced a Covid outbreak from a teen party, resulting in a...

Bess Williamson’s Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design is a thought-provoking and edifying look at the shifting culture...

I wrote this letter to the editor of my local newspaper on June 16. To the Editor: For the past week, African-American Chatham resident...

This is a pre-publication draft of my review of Jacqueline Wolf’s Cesarean Section: An American History of Risk, Technology, and...

I'll be discussing The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage in America on a new on-line platform, called Speakeasy, on...

In Random Families: Genetic Strangers, Sperm Donor Siblings, and the Creation of New Kin, sociologists Rosanna Hertz and Margaret Nelson...

With the arrival of cheaper and more user-friendly home pregnancy tests in the 1980s, women were able to confirm their pregnancies...

In the decade and a half that I spent researching my book “The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage in America,” I...

Lara Freidenfelds’s new book, The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage in America, explores the history of pregnancy...

After I miscarried my first pregnancy, I quickly realized that I needed a historical perspective to make sense of this shockingly...

As a historian who has spent a career studying pregnancy and birth, I always look forward to Advent. During the weeks leading up to...

In November 2016, my Facebook feed was filled with friends’ dreaded anticipation of Thanksgiving with extended family, and particularly...

It was not that long ago that “test tube babies” only existed in science fiction. I remember my shock when, in 2007, one of my students...

I am glad to see so many women willing to break the silence on miscarriage. I am a historian, and I spent 15 years researching my...

This week I purged my bookshelves. As a Ph.D. historian, it initially felt like a risky move — somewhere in between disowning my former...