Today. Todays lecture is about american women journalists of the late 19th century. This is one of my absolute favorite things to talk about, as im sure you all can imagine. So im just going to dive right into it. The title of todays talk is reporters and sisters. And thats because these labels represent a new kind of job that emerged for women at the end of the 19th century. And i want to tell you the story of how some pretty bold and remarkable women seized the opportunities created by the circumstances of their time to carve out a public space for themselves and to make a voice for themselves and for others when womens voices were not welcomed or, or respected that much. So history is always the story of individuals responding creatively to the conditions and circumstances in which they live. And so to really understand how this unfolded and how this new type of job that being a newspaper reporter in some of the biggest cities of the country to understand how this came about, we rea
Todays lecture is about american women journalists of the late 19th century. This is one of my absolute favorite things to talk about as i am sure you all can imagine. I am just going to dive right into it. The title of todays top is stunned reporters and sob sisters. That is because these labels represent a new kind of job that emerged for women at the end of the 19th century. I want to tell you the story of how some pretty bold and remarkable women seized the opportunities created by the circumstances of their time to carve out a public space for themselves and to make a voice for themselves and four others won womens voices were not welcomed or respected that much. History is always the story of individuals are responding creatively to the conditions and circumstances in which they live. To really understand how this unfolded and how this new type of job, that being a newspaper reporter in some of the bigger cities in the country to understand how this came about, we really need to
Century. Good morning. [inaudible conversations] thank you for being here today. Todays lecture is about american women journalists of the late 19th century. This is one of my absolute favorite things to talk about, as im sure you all can imagine. So im just going to dive right into it. The title of todays talk is reporters and sisters. And thats because these labels represent a new kind of job that emerged for women at the end of the 19th century. And i want to tell you the story of how some pretty bold and remarkable women seized the opportunities created by the circumstances of their time to carve out a public space for themselves and to make a voice for themselves and for others when womens voices were not welcomed or, or respected that much. So history is always the story of individuals responding creatively to the conditions and circumstances in which they live. And so to really understand how this unfolded and how this new type of job that being a newspaper reporter in some of t
Companies support cspan 2 as a public service. Morning, thank you for being here today. Todays lecture is about american women journalists of the late 19th century. This is one of my absolute favorite things to talk about as i am sure you all can imagine. I am just going to dive right into it. The title of todays top is stunned reporters and sob sisters. That is because these labels represent a new kind of job that emerged for women at the end of the 19th century. I want to tell you the story of how some pretty bold and remarkable women seized the opportunities created by the circumstances of their time to carve out a public space for themselves and to make a voice for themselves and four others won womens voices were not welcomed or respected that much. History is always the story of individuals are responding creatively to the conditions and circumstances in which they live. To really understand how this unfolded and how this new type of job, that being a newspaper reporter in some o
And powerful way of telling the story because what you are after journalism is to bring attention to an issue, especially in cases of poor do we are close institutions you can see and things going on that might not be all right, we would like to bring us to public attention not only to get those empowered to act. Host what is an example of legitimate undercover reporting . Guest well, there are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of examples going back to the 1840s by my measure. This field is usually considered to have started about the 1880s with the subject of my first book, the biography of billy blades, but actually ive been able in this effort too dated to the 1840s yet there are fantastic episodes of the porters from the north going south to understand slavery and actually not allow pollution movement. Said they would let say go to a slave auction, posing as a buyer and that was a fantastic ruse because you walked around with a catalog so it can be a way to take no very quietly.