#  Books and Articles 

 



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**BOOKS**

*Fighting Words: The Bold American Journalists Who Brought the World Home between the Wars* (Basic Books, 2020).

*Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation* (Harvard U. Press, 2000).

*No Small Courage: A History of Women in the United States*, editor (Oxford U. Press, 2000).

*Root of Bitterness: Documents of the Social History of American Women*, revised edition, co-editor with

 Jeanne Boydston, Ann Braude, Lori D. Ginzberg, and Molly Ladd-Taylor, (Northeastern U. Press, 1996)

*A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters* (Yale U. Press, 1991).

*The Grounding of Modern Feminism* (Yale U. Press., 1987).

*The Bonds of Womanhood: 'Woman's Sphere' in New England, l780‑l835* (Yale U. Press, 1977; 2d ed.

 with new preface, 1997).

*Root of Bitterness: Documents of the Social History of American Women* (E.P.Dutton, l972)

**ARTICLES** (selected list from twenty-five years only)

“Making and Circulating the News in an Illiberal Age,” Journal of American History 104:3 (Dec. 2017).

"How History Matters in Same-Sex Marriage Rights," in *Marriage, Law and Modernity: Global Histories*, ed. Julia Moses (London: Bloomsbury, 2018).

"Marriage Crisis and All That Jazz," in *Domestic Tensions, National Anxieties: Global Perspectives on*

 *Marriage, Crisis, and Nation*, ed. Kristin Celello and Hanan Kholoussy (NY: Oxford, 2016).

"Which History in Obergefell v. Hodges? *AHA Perspectives*, July 2015.

"In Same-Sex Marriage Case, A Contest over History," *Boston Review*, July 2015.

"Revisiting the Transatlantic 1920s: Vincent Sheean vs. Malcolm Cowley," *American Historical Review* 118 (February 2013), 46-75.

"No Objections: What History Tells Us about Same-sex Marriage," *Boston Review,* January 2011.

"The Public Stake," in *Just Marriage*, Mary Lynn Shanley et al., (NY, Oxford U Press, 2004), 33-36.

“Public Emblem, Private Realm: Family and Polity in the United States,” in *Democratic Vistas*, ed.

 Anthony Kronman, (New Haven: Yale U. Press, 2004).

“Women’s Rights Talk,” *American Studies in Scandinavia* 32:2 (2000), 18-29.

"Marriage and Women's Citizenship in the United States, 1830-1934," *American Historical Review* 103:5

 (Dec. 1998), 1440-74.

"Justice for All? Marriage and Deprivation of Citizenship in the United States," in *Justice and Injustice,*

 ed. Austin Sarat (Ann Arbor: U. Mich, 1996).

"'Giving Character to Our Whole Civil Polity': Marriage and State Authority in the Late Nineteenth

 Century," in *U.S. History as Women's History*, ed. Linda Kerber et al. (Chapel Hill, U.N.C.Press: 1995).

"Early Twentieth-Century Feminism in Political Context: A Comparative Look at Germany and the

 United States," in *Suffrage & Beyond*, ed. Caroline Daley and Melanie Nolan (Auckland, NZ: Auckland

 U.P., 1994).