Amy Erdman Farrell

My book was nominated, alongside so many wonderful books, as one of the 2025 Readers' Choice Awards for UNC Press. If you're so inclined, please vote by November 21! uncpress.org/readers-choi...

Last week I was in conversation with Tiya Miles at Harvard Book Store---tomorrow, Tuesday 11/12, with Robin Morris at Decatur Library, cosponsored by Charis Books, the oldest feminist bookstore in the South. Please join me! 7pm
charisbooksandmore.com/event/2025-1...

So sorry I didn't reply earlier--it's out!

Thank you so much! And for all your deep engagement....

Thanks to my press, Ferris and Ferris/University of North Carolina Press, I'm going on a book tour.
Times are all 7pm except Chicago (4pm) and Corte Madera (11am)-- I would love to see you in person and talk Girl Scouts, innocence, race, and girlhood. Please join me!

My book is out! I am so thrilled that I'll be giving my first talk at the Handwerker Gallery at Ithaca College where the work of Mara Baldwin is being exhibited. Her exhibit, "Trust Fall," is exquisite. If you're in the Ithaca area, please join us! Tuesday, October 21 at 5:30pm

It was a fun day of answering interesting questions--couldn't even get to them all. Will return later to finish!

So...I'm on Reddit today, r/AskHistorians, to answer questions related to Intrepid Girls and my research on Girl Scouts....or I presume anything related to my work. Very thoughtful questions so far! Never thought I'd be on Reddit except for landing there with some odd search....

Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Sco… When eight-year-old Amy Erdman Farrell moved with her f…

Hey, everyone--Goodreads is doing a giveaway for signed copies of my book :)
www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

I get this! Here’s my “write a book” badge🌞

Her work on Josephine Holloway is very important!

So thrilled to see this! Lindsay Starr did such an amazing job with the cover of Intrepid Girls--I agree!

Those badges of mine even showed up on the cover of the fall 2025 catalog uncpress.org/fall-2025-se...! If you're interested in pre-ordering, you can get a 30% discount using the code 01SOCIAL30 on your order form--
I'm in amazing company in the fall line-up too--take a look.

I bet they learned a lot of great stitches....

thank you! And I agree that they did an amazing job with the cover!

thank you!

yes, my research includes details about Brownies....

I love your idea of having badges for real life--how true.

So amazed to see this on the fall cover!!!

This is so true.

This is so horrible. And those kinds of improvements actually make it useful for so many people--

I am so very pleased to share the cover of my forthcoming book on the history of the Girl Scouts, forthcoming in October.

I think UNC Press did such a beautiful job with the cover. Those are actually my badges from when I was a girl. Even the stitching is my own.