Your focus as a historian is primarily 17th and 18th Century America. I hadn't seen or heard anyone noticing a connection between those two families, and I was just knocked out by that. I was reading oral histories in the Sanger Papers and realized that people who were being interviewed about Margaret Sanger were people in William Moulton Marston's family. As a historian, you're mainly reading people's letters and their diaries and things like that you get a different glimpse of someone in an oral history. I try, whenever possible, to read oral histories. The Planned Parenthood papers happen to be at Smith College, which has a terrific collection of women's history, and they also have Margaret Sanger's papers. This was during the GOP Presidential nomination season, and all nominees had to sign a pledge that if they were elected, they would defund Planned Parenthood. Then I had an assignment from "The New Yorker" to write about the history of Planned Parenthood. I had been working on a bunch of unrelated pieces of research, including a history of privacy, and a piece about the history of evidence. Jill Lepore: It began a little before that.
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