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Alexandra M. Lord

Alexandra M. Lord

Alexandra M. Lord is chair of the division of medicine and science at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History and author of Condom Nation: The U.S. Government’s Sex Education Campaign from World War I to the Internet, 2010.

Stories from Alexandra M. Lord

Before the critical 1965 Supreme Court ruling Griswold v. Connecticut, state and federal morality laws prohibited access to contraceptives, even to married couples (above: a picketer protests the opening of a new Planned Parenthood Center in New Haven, Connecticut).

The Revolutionary 1965 Supreme Court Decision That Declared Sex a Private Affair

A Smithsonian curator of medicine and science looks back to the days when police could arrest couples for using contraception