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Upcoming Florida Food Talk: Tampa Cookbooks & Restaurants
I am looking forward to talking about Tampa food at the Tampa Bay History Center on Thursday as part of Florida Conversations – Taste & Traditions: Tampa’s Restaurants. I will be speaking about food editor Ruth Gray and the Gasparilla Cookbook.
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1972 NYT Article About Feminism
Thanks for the ILL staff at UCF for tracking down this great 1972 article about feminism that I will be using in my upcoming women and politics book. One source mentioned that a woman would never be president.
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My Upcoming Book: Politicking Politely & Well-Behaved Women
I am finishing up the edits on my upcoming book, Politicking Politely: Well-Behaved Women Making a Difference in the 1960s and 1970s. My book focuses on 6 significant women. It includes the relatively unknown stories of two female political operatives who worked behind the scenes along with four female journalists who also occasionally worked within government to advance women’s rights during the 1950s through the 1970s. Much of it centers on Washington, D.C., as well as the more unlikely cities of Madison, Wisconsin, and Miami, Florida. It includes the story of a women’s page journalist who published an official government report in her newspaper section when the White House refused…
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AJHA Donna Allen Speaker
It was my pleasure to introduce the AJHA Donna Allen speaker this year. Food editor and journalism educator Janet Keeler gave an excellent Donna Allen address at the AJHA conference in St. Petersburg.
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Midwest Women & Politics Book Chapter
Happy to contribute a chapter to a book about Midwest Women and Politics – focusing on Kay Clarenbach. She is a significant part of my upcoming book about women and politics in the 1950s and 1960s.
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AJHA Newsletter: My Anne Rowe Column
Looking forward to the AJHA conference in St. Petersburg next month. This is a column I wrote for AJHA about one of my favorite St. Pete journalists, Anne Rowe Goldman.
A website devoted to the history of newspaper women's pages
