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FHQ article: Media’s coverage of the ERA in Florida
The new issue of the Florida Historical Quarterly is out. It is a peer-reviewed journal published by the Florida Historical Society. The issue includes an article I wrote about the media’s coverage of the Equal Rights Amendment in Florida in the 1970s – especially the coverage of Florida Sen. Lori Wilson.
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Jeanne Voltz & Marian Manners
With one more free week before classes start, I am doing some work on my article about women’s page journalist and food editor Jeanne Voltz. She wrote under her own name in the 1950s while she was at the Miami Herald. When she moved to the L.A. Times in the 1960s, she initially wrote under the pen name “Marian Manners.” That’s a photo of the original Marian Manners above. Here is an article about her. One item missing from the L.A. Times story was that the initial food editor reported to the advertising department. It was not until Jeanne Voltz that the food editor moved over to the editorial side…
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Orange County (Florida) History
I just received our new membership cards for The History Center of Central Florida. Above is the History Center’s museum – it’s a great place. There is also an archive with old newspapers that I hope to go through this year. I also hope to write an article for its magazine, Reflections, about an Orlando native and Miami Herald reporter.
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Research resolutions for 2010
In honor of New Year’s, here are my research resolutions for 2010• Get started on a book about Dallas women’s page editor Vivian Castleberry. This is a follow up to my article about Vivian that ran in 2007 in Southwest Historical Quarterly. • Write an article about the friendship and activism of Catherine East and women’s page journalist Vera Glaser. I have gone through both of their papers – East at Harvard and Glaser at the University of Wyoming. I have lots of material and I need to start writing. • Finish revising articles about women’s page journalists Eleni Epstein and Betty Preston (that’s her in the photo above) and…
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Gail Collins
I just finished reading the great Gail Collins’ book on women’s history, When Everything Changed. Here is the New York Times review of it. Here she is on the Colbert Report: The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Gail Collins www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Economy She briefly mentions women’s pages twice in the book.
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Happy Anniversary
Lance and I celebrated our sixth wedding anniversary in Cocoa yesterday. The Florida Historical Society is in Cocoa – right in the middle of the restaurants and shops of the Village. The FHS recently published my article about how Florida newspapers – in the women’s pages and news sections – covered the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s. I should get a copy of the journal soon.
A website devoted to the history of newspaper women's pages
