Posted: January 11, 2022
By Dr. Gloria-Yvonne Williams January 11, 2022 This is part of a series of blog posts on women’s history and the long Progressive Era, honoring the legacy of the late Elisabeth Israels Perry. Perry served as SHGAPE President from 1998-2000 and had a long and distinguished career that highlighted women’s political activism in GAPE and […]
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Tagged: biography, Black history, education, Elisabeth Israels Perry, Long Progressive Era, Progressive Era, women's history
Posted: October 26, 2021
By Dr. Melissa R. Klapper October 26, 2021 This is part of a series of blog posts on women’s history and the long Progressive Era, honoring the legacy of the late Elisabeth Israels Perry. Perry served as SHGAPE President from 1998-2000 and had a long and distinguished career that highlighted women’s political activism in GAPE […]
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Tagged: Elisabeth Israels Perry, Jewish history, labor, Long Progressive Era, political history, Progressive Era, women's history
Posted: October 12, 2021
By Adrien Lievin September 28, 2021 This is part of a series of blog posts on women’s history and the long Progressive Era, honoring the legacy of the late Elisabeth Israels Perry. Perry served as SHGAPE President from 1998-2000 and had a long and distinguished career that highlighted women’s political activism in GAPE and in […]
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Tagged: Appalachia, Black history, economic history, Elisabeth Israels Perry, food, Progressive Era, South, women's history
Posted: October 5, 2021
By Crystal Brandenburgh October 5, 2021 This is part of a series of blog posts on women’s history and the long Progressive Era, honoring the legacy of the late Elisabeth Israels Perry. Perry served as SHGAPE President from 1998-2000 and had a long and distinguished career that highlighted women’s political activism in GAPE and in […]
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Tagged: Elisabeth Israels Perry, Long Progressive Era, Progressive Era, suffrage, women's history, World War I
Posted: September 21, 2021
By Dr. Michael Patrick Cullinane September 21, 2021 During the first COVID lockdown, in April 2020, a query flashed across my computer screen as I scrolled through H-Net: “Can anyone recommend any podcasts devoted specifically to the History of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era?” As an avid podcast listener, I should have been able […]
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Tagged: 1918 Pandemic, Black history, critical race theory, eugenics, Gilded Age, Progressive Era, reproductive history, women's history
Posted: September 8, 2021
By Elizabeth D. Katz, Ph.D., J.D. September 8, 2021 This is part of a series of blog posts on women’s history and the long Progressive Era, honoring the legacy of the late Elisabeth Israels Perry. Perry served as SHGAPE President from 1998-2000 and had a long and distinguished career that highlighted women’s political activism in […]
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Tagged: Elisabeth Israels Perry, legal history, Long Progressive Era, political history, Progressive Era, women's history
Posted: August 9, 2021
By Dr. Laurie Kozakiewicz August 10, 2021 This is part of a series of blog posts on women’s history and the long Progressive Era, honoring the legacy of the late Elisabeth Israels Perry. Perry served as SHGAPE President from 1998-2000 and had a long and distinguished career that highlighted women’s political activism in GAPE and […]
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Tagged: electoral politics, Elisabeth Israels Perry, Long Progressive Era, political history, Progressive Era, women's history
Posted: July 13, 2021
By Dr. Anya Jabour July 13, 2021 This is the first in a series of blog posts on women’s history and the long Progressive Era, honoring the legacy of the late Elisabeth Israels Perry. Perry served as SHGAPE President from 1998-2000 and had a long and distinguished career that highlighted women’s political activism in GAPE […]
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Tagged: carceral state, Elisabeth Israels Perry, eugenics, history of medicine, Progressive Era, women's history
Posted: October 8, 2019
by Lizzie Evens On 10th August 1916, detective Frances Benzecry visited a young woman, Elizabeth Kessler, and her foster mother at their home in the Yorkville neighbourhood of New York’s upper east side. At that time, Kessler was embroiled in an abortion trial in which she accused German nurse Katie Rath of performing a criminal […]
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Tagged: abortion, history of medicine, Progressive Era, women's history
Posted: September 11, 2019
by Dr. Kelly Marino With centennials in 2019 and 2020 approaching, scholars are working to present the suffrage movement and its legacy in new ways. To date, most studies focus on national or state leaders who directed major organizations or accomplished well-known achievements. They often overlook local activism and less publicized campaigns that broadened the […]
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Tagged: biography, Gilded Age, labor, suffrage, women's history
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