" Contemporary praise for Black named her "the world's most famous feature writer" and "one of the world's most successful reporters," while her critics affixed the pejorative labels "stunt girl" and
During the years 1880 to 1940, the glory days of the American circus, a third to a half of the cast members were women--a large group of very visible American workers whose story needs telling. This b
After FDR promised Americans a “new deal” in 1932, he came through with a new Works Progress Administration (WPA), which would employ a large group of skilled and unskilled workers, among them artists
Because scholars have traditionally only examined the efforts of American suffragettes in relation to electoral politics, the history books have largely missed the real story of what these women soug
Adams (English, Loyola U., New Orleans) and Keene (English, U. of Tennessee) present a biography of Alice Paul (1885-1977), an American feminist whose important contributions to the women's suffrage m
When the Pacific Railroad brought the east and west coasts and small and large towns together in 1869, it brought with it (in addition to the more obvious examples of commerce) visual art in many form
