This collection comes out of research for Rachel Louise Moran's 2024 book Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America. The book examines the transformation of thinking about postpartum mental health between the late-19th to the early 21st centuries, especially the transformations of the 1980s and 1990s.

The collection features 32 oral histories with key figures in maternal mental health in the US between the 1970s to the 2020s. This includes interviews with medical professionals, including psychiatrists, psychologists, and therapists. It also includes interviews with activists from groups including the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Depression After Delivery, and Postpartum Support International.

In this collection maternal mental health is framed broadly. Most interviews focus on postpartum depression (PPD), postpartum psychosis, or what is today described as Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMADs). The collection also includes several interviews with individuals on both sides of the controversial issue of mental illness after abortion, or post-abortion syndrome.

Postpartum Depression/Maternal Mental Health Oral History Collection