journalism history
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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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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.
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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.
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Christmas & the Penney-Missouri Awards
Throughout 1960s, the winners of the Penney-Missouri Awards (the top recognition for the women’s pages) received a telegram on Christmas morning. For those multiple winners, it was like a child waking up on Dec. 25th waiting for a knock on the door. Many of the women wrote letters about how exciting it was to learn they had won on Christmas. Merry Christmas from Curtis!
