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
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