HIST 625: Reimagining Great Hall Research Resources

Abortion, birth control, contraception, and family planning debates

Free Love protest at Faneuil Hall, August 1, 1878

Margaret Sanger: fight for birth control, appearance at Old South Church in 1929 

Blatt, Martin Henry. Free Love and Anarchism: The Biography of Ezra Heywood. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989. Note: This title is out-of-print. Request a copy through InterLibrary Loan.

Eig, Jonathan. The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution. London, England: Pan Books, 2017.

"Free Love Supporters Protest at Faneuil Hall," August 1, 1878, Mass Moments

Lavery, Colm. “Situating Eugenics: Robert DeCourcy Ward and the Immigration Restriction League of Boston.” Journal of Historical Geography 53 (July 2016): 54–62.

Lefkowitz Horowitz, Helen. Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.

Lombardo, Paul A. “When Harvard Said No to Eugenics: The J. Ewing Mears Bequest, 1927.” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 57, no. 3 (2014): 374–392.

Ludmerer, Kenneth M. “Genetics, Eugenics, and the Immigration Restriction Act of 1924.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 46, no. 1 (January 1, 1972): 59–81.

Tone, Andrea. Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America. New York: Hill and Wang, 2002.

Abortion, Birth Control, Contraception, and Family Planning archival collections, Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America

Cohen, Adam S. “Harvard’s Eugenics Era.” Harvard Magazine (March-April 2016).

Margaret Sanger’s books; newspaper coverage.