this 15 minute interview was recorded at the annual american historical association meeting. steve: shannon, a professor at the university of new mexico, 'm intrigued by the topic, buying better babies: popular health advice in the early 20th century. hy this topic? sharon: i became really interested in the history of regnancy probably 10 years ago when i first got to graduate school. i started looking at the history of miscarriage because i was becoming of that age where many people around me were having children. every woman i knew who had a miscarriage said i did not know how common it was until i had my own. that is what started my

american history tv recorded this 15 minute interview at the annual american historical association meeting in chicago. >> professor elizabeth todd breland, your book, "a political education: black politics and education reform in chicago since 1960," what is the premise behind the book and what did you learn? elizabeth: the premise behind the book is that, in the early 2000, so much of the conversation around education reform was dominated by nonprofit groups, philanthropists, big-city mayors, advocacy organizations,

american history tv recorded this 15 minute interview at the annual american historical association meeting in chicago. >> professor elizabeth todd breland, your book, "a political education: black politics and education reform in chicago since 1960," what is the premise behind the book and what did you learn? elizabeth: the premise behind the book is that, in the early 2000, so much of the conversation around education reform was dominated by nonprofit groups, philanthropists, big-city mayors, advocacy organizations, and in my own research i was seeing that it was obscuring this longer history of community-based organizing around educational improvement, particularly by black parents, community members, organizers and teachers. i wanted to tell that story and tell that history. steve: we are here in chicago. you teach at the university of illinois in chicago. what was it like you're in the 1960's? elizabeth: in the 1960's, chicago was still the second largest city in the nation. it was led by mayor richard j daley, who was the head of the chicago democratic machine, but was also a power pl

this 15 minute interview was recorded at the annual american historical association meeting. steve: shannon, a professor at the university of new mexico, 'm intrigued by the topic, buying better babies: popular health advice in the early 20th century. hy this topic? sharon: i became really interested in the history of regnancy probably 10 years ago when i first got to graduate school. i started looking at the history of miscarriage because i was becoming of that age where many people around me were having children. every woman i knew who had a miscarriage said i did not know how common it was until i had my own. hat is what started my historical brain in thinking how did we get to this point and did it exist historically? i started to do that project. this project now is sort of a sequel to the first project. i discovered the history of miscarriage -- i stopped right around 1900. there was a lot more to the story. by 1900, we still will were not going to a doctor during pregnancy. i was really curious as to when that started. i thought it was going to have an earlier. that is