My article about Los Angeles women’s page editor Maggie Savoy in California History just received the first-place award for research in the at-large category (for all states without their own chapters) of the National Federation of Press Women. I will learn where it places nationally in a month or two. Here is a link to the article. My article about Vivian Castleberry in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly won the national NFPW award for research two years ago.

I found a great collection of home ec photos from Purdue University. The above image is from 1955. Ann Hamman earned her master’s degree in home ec from Purude University in the 1940s. She went on to become the food editor at the Evansville Courier. I am beginning to collect information about her career and exploring the intersection of women’s pages and home economics. I also came across this quote yesterday: “Home economics has not fared well at the hands of historians. Until recently women’s historians largely dismissed home economics as little more than a conspiracy to keep women in the kitchen.” (Sarah Stage, “Home Economics: What’s in a name?”…

I found a great collection of home ec photos from Purdue University. The above image is from 1955. Ann Hamman earned her master’s degree in home ec from Purude University in the 1940s. She went on to become the food editor at the Evansville Courier. I am beginning to collect information about her career and exploring the intersection of women’s pages and home economics. I also came across this quote yesterday: “Home economics has not fared well at the hands of historians. Until recently women’s historians largely dismissed home economics as little more than a conspiracy to keep women in the kitchen.” (Sarah Stage, “Home Economics: What’s in a name?”…