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Exactly 126 years after Emma Gills’s remains were found in a Bridgeport, Connecticut, pond — mutilated in an attempt to conceal that she’d died after an illegal abortion — several events took me back to Connecticut to talk about that … Continue reading →

It was a rare and thought-provoking experience to be interviewed by Gabriella Kelly-Davies for her podcast Biographers in Conversation. Gabriella, an Australian, launched this effort earlier this year to explore the craft of biography and the choices biographers make. She … Continue reading →

I’m immensely grateful to biographer Carl Rollyson, who reviewed my latest book, The Disquieting Death of Emma Gill: Abortion, Death, and Concealment in Victorian New England, for the New York Sun. Link: https://bit.ly/3ROuvtF Carl also featured me as his guest … Continue reading →

A few years ago, who could imagine that a daytime TV show would frankly discuss the subject of abortion? Yet that’s what happened in Hartford, CT, as the wildly popular “Great Day Connecticut” show produced by WFSV-Channel 3 invited me … Continue reading →

Smart and inquisitive audience members kept me on my toes as I presented slide talks based on my book, The Disquieting Death of Emma Gill, in two New England cities where illegal abortion flourished in the 1880s and 1890s. On … Continue reading →

I was honored to be interviewed by Paul Bass on New Haven’s WNHH Dateline New Haven show. Decades ago, Paul and I worked together at an alternative news and culture weekly paper called the New Haven Advocate. Knowing his formidable … Continue reading →

I’m proud to have gotten this review from Theresa Kaminski, a historian and sister writer, who I knew only through Zoom until a few weeks ago when we met in NYC. The author of several books, including Dr. Mary Walker’s … Continue reading →

Today is the publication date of “The Disquieting Death of Emma Gill,” which, sadly, would have marked the 51st birthday of Roe v Wade had it not been overturned. To note the occasion, I wrote two op-eds—for the Daily News … Continue reading →

The day before the launch of my newest title, The Disquieting Death of Emma Gill, marked 51 years since Roe v. Wade guaranteed all Americans the constitutional right to an abortion. Explaining why the US Supreme Court overturned Roe in … Continue reading →

As we approach the release date of my next book, “The Disquieting Death of Emma Gill,” I ask Hollywood to update its abortion scripts. (The link to the piece as it appeared in the Courant is here.) November 24, 2023 … Continue reading →