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Women’s Page Focus
It was great to read this post about women’s page journalism – and my books in Choice.
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Chicago Fashion Page
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New MSD & Department Store Image
I came across this great image of Marjory Stoneman Douglas (she started her career in the women’s pages) in 1947 in a Miami department store. I will be using it in my talk at the Florida Conference of Historians later in the month.
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Writing Women into the Curriculum
I enjoyed my teaching talk about history and time in Daytona Beach. It was beautiful.
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Beacon College Salon Series Talk
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Food Studies Presentation: Ohio Food Editor History
I was happy to get an acceptance for presentation about Ohio food editors for the 2020 Food Studies Conference. The Golden Era of Newspaper Food Journalism Questions about cooking? Lost a cherished recipe? Planning a holiday menu? For decades, it was the newspaper food editor who answered these questions from readers. The newspaper food editors were important to their communities as they wrote about food trends, popular recipes, and local restaurants. The readers responded with calls and letters to the food section. Prior to the early 1970, these popular editors were almost always female and typically had a background in journalism and home economics. Food sections began in the women’s…
A website devoted to the history of newspaper women's pages
