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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I’ve been fascinated by the women reformers and activists of the Progressive Era for a long time. They are some of my favorite historical shin-kickers.[1] They made the world a safer, better place for women, children, blue collar workers, and immigrants, often at great personal cost. I’ve been thinking about them a lot lately. Which…

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