Lord, Alexandra
National Museum of American History staff
Selected Publications
Article
Lord, Alexandra M. 2023. "As AIDS epidemic raged, a rogue Reagan official taught America the truth ." Washington Post , Jun 4, 2023, Washington, DC.
2023
Feingold, Ellen, Frederick-Frost, Kristin, Liebhold, Peter, Lord, Alexandra, Ott, Katherine, Perry, Tony, Saha, Abeer, Sherman, Roger, and Wallace, Hal. 2023. "These Objects Tell the Story of Human-Driven Climate Change ." Smithsonian Magazine , Jun 24, 2023, Washington, DC.
2023
Lord, Alexandra M. 2018. "Dangerous Waters: On the Trail of Typhoid in Washington, DC ." Washington History , 30, (2) 56–63.
2018
Lord, Alexandra M. 2018. "Ex-Academics Still Aren't Being Consulted on Graduate-Education Reform ." The Chronicle of Higher Education , (December 16).
2018
Lord, Alexandra M. 2018. "Finding Connections ." The Public Historian , 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2018.40.2.9 .
2018
Lord, Alexandra and Wendt, Diane L. 2015. "How Vaccines, a Collective Triumph of Modern Medicine, Conquered the World's Diseases ." Smithsonian Magazine Online , (September 28, 2015), Washington, DC.
2015
Lord, Alexandra M. 2013. "Don't Reform Graduate Education in a Vacuum ." The Chronicle of Higher Education , (January 28).
2013
Lord, Alexandra M. 2012. "Location, Location, Location ." The Chronicle of Higher Education , (September 12).
2012
Lord, Alexandra M. 2012. "Our Secret Nonacademic Histories ." The Chronicle of Higher Education , (March 26).
2012
Lord, Alexandra M. 2012. "The Sweet Spot of a Nonacademic Job Search ." The Chronicle of Higher Education , (January 2).
2012
Lord, Alexandra M. 2012. "Writing for History Buffs ." The Chronicle of Higher Education , (July 9).
2012
Lord, Alexandra M. and McClellan, Michelle. 2011. "Changing History ." The Chronicle of Higher Education , (September 12).
2011
Lord, Alexandra M. 2011. "History Matters ." Perspectives on History , 49, (9).
2011
Lord, Alexandra M. 2011. "Sharing the Driving ." The Chronicle of Higher Education , (January 11).
2011
Lord, Alexandra M. 2010. "And if You Just Don't Go? " The Chronicle of Higher Education , (May 18).
2010
Lord, Alexandra M. 2010. "Whose Job Is It, Anyway? " The Chronicle of Higher Education , March 8.
2010
Lord, Alexandra M. 2009. "Every Ph.D. Needs a Plan B ." The Chronicle of Higher Education , March 16.
2009
Lord, Alexandra M. 2007. "An Object Lesson ." The Chronicle of Higher Education , October 1.
2007
Lord, Alexandra M. 2007. "Conference Confidential ." The Chronicle of Higher Education , May 30.
2007
Blog Posting
Lord, Alexandra M. 2017. "Antibodies are a girl's best friend ." O Say Can You See? Washington, DC: National Museum of American History. Oct 12, 2017. https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/antibodies-girls-best-friend .
2017
Lord, Alexandra M. 2016. "Creating the Cadet Nurse Corps for World War II ." O Say Can You See? Washington, DC: National Museum of American History. May 5, 2016. https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/creating-cadet-nurse-corps-world-war-ii .
2016
Lord, Alexandra and Wendt, Diane L. 2016. "Kids pitched in to defeat disease and advance medical research ." O Say Can You See? Washington, DC: National Museum of American History. Feb 24, 2016. http://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/kids-pitched-defeat-disease-and-advance-medical-research .
2016
Lord, Alexandra and Wendt, Diane L. 2016. "Standing up against disease together-or not ." O Say Can You See? Stories from the National Museum of American History http://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/standing-against-disease-together%E2%80%94or-not .
2016
Lord, Alexandra M. 2015. "Anti-vaccination in America ." O Say Can You See? Washington, DC: National Museum of American History. Aug 31, 2015. https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/anti-vaccination-america .
2015
Lord, Alexandra M. 2015. "Outbreak! On the front lines of a measles epidemic ." O Say Can You See? Washington, DC: National Museum of American History. Feb 23, 2015. https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/measles .
2015
Lord, Alexandra M. 2015. "The Tooth Fairy goes scientific ." O Say Can You See? Washington, DC: National Museum of American History. Apr 25, 2015. https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/tooth-fairy-goes-scientific .
2015
Lord, Alexandra M. 2015. "The peace gun ." O Say Can You See? Washington, DC: National Museum of American History. Aug 27, 2015. https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/peace-gun .
2015
Book
Lord, Alexandra M. 2010. Condom Nation: The U.S. Government's Sex Education Campaign from World War I to the Internet . Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press.
2010
