Talking History

Join Lexi as she talks about topics ranging from the history of sex education to graduate education reform to collecting objects to document COVID-19.

“Invisible Corps: In Service of Health,” PBS, June, 2023


“Collecting and Preserving the Story of COVID-19,” Preserve Cast Podcast, February, 2022.


“The Booze, Bets and Sex That Built America,” History Channel, June, 2022


“Curator Alexandra Lord on collecting COVID-19 stories,“ The Sunday Magazine, Canadian Broadcasting Company, January 3, 2021.



“How Will We Tell the Story of the Coronavirus?” The New Yorker, December 9, 2020.


“American History Coronavirus Artifacts,” C-Span, July 29, 2020.

“How the U.S. Fought the 1957 Flu Pandemic, Smithsonian Magazine, June 2020.


“The Role of Face Masks in Pandemic History and Culture, PBS Newshour. August 21, 2020.


“The Hidden Language of Masks,” The New York Times, May 15, 2020.


“The Vaccine Project: Episode 1,” The Washington Post (Video Series), September 5, 2019.


How Sex Changed the World, “The History Channel, Summer and Fall, 2013.


“The Federal Option,” Inside Higher Ed, August 9, 2015


“Safe Words,” The American Prospect, May 27, 2010.


“The History of Sex Education,” Midday with Dan Rodricks, Interview, (WYPR, Baltimore, Maryland), December 29, 2009.


“Beyond Academe,” Perspectives, January 1, 2005.


“The History of AIDS Education,” Interview on North Country Public Radio (WNCPR, Canton, New York), March, 2005.


“Academic Sweatshop,” Featured Interview on The Brian Lehr Show (WNYC, New York City, New York), April, 2004.