Women
Talking About Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Shelley Puhak
I am thrilled to have Shelley Puhak back for another round of Three Questions and an Answer. I loved her last book, The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry that Forged the Medieval World and was thrilled when I learned she was writing about the infamous Elizabeth Bathory. (Spoiler: It lived up to my expectations.) Shelley…
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Mary Elizabeth Garrett, the “Friday Evening” Group, and Coercive Philanthropy
In the course of researching my last blog post, I discovered Mary Elizabeth Garrett (1854-1915), the woman who founded and led the Women’s Medical Fund Committee, which raised the money that allowed the Johns Hopkins University medical school to open, and forced the school to admit women and to improve the quality of medical education.…
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Talking About Women’s History: A Bunch of Questions and an Answer with Jennifer Banning Tomás
Jennifer Banning Tomás is a professor of history at Piedmont Virginia Community College. Her teaching and research center on 19th and 20th century American social, political, and cultural history; women, gender, and race; civic activism and social movements; the historical profession and higher education. She has published scholarly journal articles, encyclopedia articles and book reviews,…
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