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Rachel Louise Moran

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Beyond “Baby Blues”

“Postpartum depression” encompasses various debilitating changes in mood that can occur after giving birth. How did that language come to be?

by Rachel Louise Moran, Jess McAllen via The Baffler on September 30, 2024
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Why American Policy is Leaving Millions Hungry

Instead of trying to eliminate hunger, we continue to talk about personal responsibility.

by Rachel Louise Moran via Made By History on August 7, 2018
Why the Name of the President’s Fitness Council Matters

And why would President Trump bother to change the name?

by Rachel Louise Moran via Nursing Clio on May 8, 2018
Selling American Vigor

The Cold War and the President’s Council on Physical Fitness.

by Rachel Louise Moran via Process: A Blog for American History on February 13, 2018

Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America

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Mother's hand holding baby's hand on the cover of "Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America".

On Rachel Louise Moran’s "Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America"

A new book challenges the discursive ignorance about the condition.

by Audrey Wu Clark via Society for U.S. Intellectual History on May 25, 2025

Cover of the U.S. Physical Fitness Program book, featuring silhouettes of people doing calisthenics.

Run DNC, Run RNC

When the federal government began to claim a stake in the public’s physical fitness, and the origins of the Presidential Physical Fitness Test.

via BackStory on July 10, 2015

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