women's page history
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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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Food Studies Presentation: Ohio Food Editor History
- Eleni Epstein, fashion history, fashion journalism, journalism history, Washington Star, women's page history
History Takes Time
It has been more than seven years since I first heard the name Eleni Epstein – the longtime fashion editor at the Washington Star. It was when Lance and I were going through papers of the National Women & Media Collection, then at the University of Missouri. Eleni kept everything so we had a lot to go through. We made at least six visits to archive to go through her papers during the years we lived in St. Louis. Over the years, I discovered additional material about Eleni at several archives including the New York Public Library – Lance and I visited the Library and went through the papers of…
- Bobbi McCallum, Florida Women's Pages, journalism history, Koky Dishon, Roberta Applegate, Ruth Ellen Church, women's history, women's page history
Working as a Public Historian
I have been asked why I spend so much time doing research when that work is not considered research by my university. My answer is that I believe in public history. I have written before about having to twice as hard to get tenure because I study regional rather than national figures in journalism history. While it does not feel fair, the women I write about were rarely treated fairly and faced much bigger hurdles than my own. I have the usual peer-review history journal articles that I publicize through social media, especially Academia.edu and Linkedin. My article about food editor Jeanne Voltz has more than 560 page views on…
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Fashion Writers Marian Christy & Bobbi McCallum
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Quilted News: Mixing Hard and Soft News
Lance & I just got the acceptance email from the Florida Communication Association about our paper “Quilted News: Mixing Hard and Soft News to Create a New Definition for Women’s News.” We will be presenting at the conference in Orlando in October. The paper is an examination of the content of the winning women’s pages of the Penney-Missouri Awards in the 1960s – the first decade of the competition. There is an emphasis on Florida newspapers because in the 1960s Florida newspapers dominated the Penney-Missouri Awards. Overall, they won one-third of all awards during the decade. The content of the sections were examined using textual analysis. Further information was drawn…
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Writing Women into the Curriculum
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Women’s Clubs, Academia & Social Media
I have spoken several times about the need for academics to use social media to promote their research. Below is an example of how social media and the real world came together. In the Spring, I answered a Tweet from NPR’s the Salt about the cookbooks produced by Junior League organizations as fundraisers. That led to an interview with an NPR reporter and this story. A few weeks ago, I received an email from the president of the Daytona Beach Junior League who had heard the story on the radio. Last night, I spoke to the organization in honor of its 80 year anniversary:“Women’s Clubs: Well Behaved Women Who Helped…
