“I’m in contact with some drug company to fund my upcoming event so naturally I thought of you,” read the text that popped up on my phone, accompanied by the face palm emoji. It was from my sister, a registered nurse who works on a neonatal...

Earlier this year, the Journal of Women's History published a cluster of papers focused on issues facing women...

What is the book about?

Most simply, it’s about the past, present, and possible futures of the land-grant university in twenty-first century America.

So why write a book about land-grant universities now...

Writing about “Going to College in the Sixties” has encouraged me to think a lot about “Going to College” today.  Connecting past and present in American higher education...

My interest in the subject of twentieth-century American nightclub culture and its intersection with political activism began as both highly theoretical and mundane. It started with a conversation I was having with a colleague about whether...

Chesapeake Bay is viewed these days as a rich fisheries and hunting environment, but few know that it was even more productive than now. Once described as an immense protein factory, the Bay, along with its fisheries and waterfowl harvests, has...