journalism history
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FCA Presentation: Quilted News
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A Culinary Conservation: Newspaper Recipe Exchange Columns
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Celebrating Archival Research & Re-examining Women’s History
Lance and I went to a wonderful talk at the University of Tampa last Friday. Kacy Tillman presented “The Epistolary Salon: Female Letter-Writing during the American Revolution.” She argued that writing letters was a way for the 18th century American female to engage in the American Revolution at a time when they could not fight, vote or legislate. I found it interesting how much of the material in the letters sounded like journalism. Her talk was also a reminder that women’s history and the role of women in the public sphere is more complex than previous historians have written. Kacy described some wonderful finds in archives such as notes in…
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New Marjorie Paxson Image
Here is a new image of Marjorie Paxson from her time as the women’s page editor at the Philadelphia Bulletin. I am including it in my book, The Food Section: Newspaper Women and the Culinary Community.
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Tampa Bay History Journal Article: Anne Rowe
The article that Lance & I wrote for the Tampa Bay History Journal is out. In the article, we explain the role of women’s page journalist Anne Rowe and how she transformed her section to a more progressive one.
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Omaha Food Editor Maude Coons
Maude Charron Coons was the longtime food editor at the Omaha World-Herald. She graduated from the home economics program at Iowa State University after overcoming paralysis caused by polio, as noting in the story above. She started at the Omaha World-Herald as the household editor in 1936. She and her husband had relocated to Omaha in the hopes that either of them could find a job during a trying economic time. They were thrilled when they both found jobs. Initially, she wrote under the byline of “Mary Cooks.” By the 1940’s, she wrote under her own name. She wrote several food pamphlets and one cookbook. She was attending the annual food editors…
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