Helen Ring Robinson

Author : Pat Pascoe
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781457111679

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Helen Ring Robinson by Pat Pascoe Pdf

Helen Ring Robinson was Colorado's first female state senator and only the second in the United States. Serving from 1913 to 1916, she worked for social and economic justice as a champion of women, children, and workers' rights and education during a tumultuous time in the country's history. Her commitment to these causes did not end in the senate; she continued to labor first for world peace and then for the American war effort after her term ended. Helen Ring Robinson is The first book to focus on this important figure in the women's suffrage movement and the 1913, 1914, and 1915 sessions of the Colorado General Assembly. Author Pat Pascoe, herself a former Colorado senator, uses newspapers, legislative materials, Robinson's published writings, and her own expertise as a legislator to craft the only biography of this contradictory and little-known woman. Robinson had complex politics as a suffragist, peace activist, international activist, and strong supporter of the war effort in World War I and a curious personal life with an often long-distance marriage to lawyer Ewing Robinson, yet close relationship with her stepdaughter, Alycon. Pascoe explores both of these worlds, although much of that personal life remains a mystery. This fascinating story will be a worthwhile read to anyone interested in Colorado history, women's history, labor history, or politics.

Author : Pat Pascoe
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781607321477

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Helen Ring Robinson by Pat Pascoe Pdf

Calling herself "the housewife of the senate," Helen Ring Robinson was Colorado's first female state senator and only the second in the United States. Serving from 1913 to 1917, she worked for social and economic justice as a champion of women, children, and workers' rights and education during a tumultuous time in the country's history. Her commitment to these causes did not end in the senate; she continued to labor first for world peace and then for the American war effort after her term ended. Helen Ring Robinson is the first book to focus on this important figure in the women's suffrage movement and the 1913, 1914, and 1915 sessions of the Colorado General Assembly. Author Pat Pascoe, herself a former Colorado senator, uses newspapers, legislative materials, Robinson's published writings, and her own expertise as a legislator to craft the only biography of this contradictory and little-known woman. Robinson had complex politics as a suffragist, peace activist, international activist, and strong supporter of the war effort in World War I and a curious personal life with an often long-distance marriage to lawyer Ewing Robinson, yet close relationship with her stepdaughter, Alycon. Pascoe explores both of these worlds, although much of that personal life remains a mystery. This fascinating story will be a worthwhile read to anyone interested in Colorado history, women's history, labor history, or politics.

Author : Helen Ring Robinson
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019912928

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Preparing Women for Citizenship by Helen Ring Robinson Pdf

In this groundbreaking work, author Helen Ring Robinson argues for women's suffrage and highlights the importance of civic education for women. With historical context and practical advice for women seeking to become more engaged citizens, it is a powerful call to action for women's rights. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Linda M. Grasso
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826358820

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Equal under the Sky by Linda M. Grasso Pdf

Equal under the Sky is the first historical study of Georgia O’Keeffe’s complex involvement with, and influence on, US feminism from the 1910s to the 1970s. Utilizing understudied sources such as fan letters, archives of women’s organizations, transcripts of women’s radio shows, and programs from women’s colleges, Linda M. Grasso shows how and why feminism and O’Keeffe are inextricably connected in popular culture and scholarship. The women’s movements that impacted the creation and reception of O’Keeffe’s art, Grasso argues, explain why she is a national icon who is valued for more than her artistic practice.

Author : Chris Dubbs
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781574418330

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American Women Report World War I by Chris Dubbs Pdf

In the opening decades of the 20th century, war reporting remained one of the most well-guarded, thoroughly male bastions of journalism. However, when war erupted in Europe in August 1914, a Boston woman, Mary Boyle O’Reilly, became one of the first journalists to bring the war to American newspapers. A Saturday Evening Post journalist, Mary Roberts Rinehart, became the first journalist, of any country, of any gender, to visit the trenches. These women were only the first wave of female journalists who covered the conflict. American Women Report World War I collects more than 35 of the best of their articles and those that highlight the richness of their contribution to the history of the Great War. Editor Chris Dubbs provides section introductions for background and context to stories such as “Woman Writer Sees Horrors of Battle,” “Star Woman Runs Blockade,” and “America Meets France.” The work of female journalists focuses more squarely on individuals caught in the conflict—including themselves. It offers a valuable counterpoint to the male, horror-of-the-trenches experience and demonstrates how World War I served as a catalyst that enabled women to expand the public forum for their opinions on social and moral issues.

Author : Elizabeth Frost,Elizabeth Frost-Knappman
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Suffragists
ISBN : 9781438108889

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Women's Suffrage in America by Elizabeth Frost,Elizabeth Frost-Knappman Pdf

Provides hundreds of firsthand accounts of the movement from - diary entries, letters, speeches, and newpaper accounts.

Author : Gail M. Beaton
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781457173820

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Colorado Women by Gail M. Beaton Pdf

Colorado Women is the first full-length chronicle of the lives, roles, and contributions of women in Colorado from prehistory through the modern day. A national leader in women's rights, Colorado was one of the first states to approve suffrage and the first to elect a woman to its legislature. Nevertheless, only a small fraction of the literature on Colorado history is devoted to women and, of those, most focus on well-known individuals. The experiences of Colorado women differed greatly across economic, ethnic, and racial backgrounds. Marital status, religious affiliation, and sexual orientation colored their worlds and others' perceptions and expectations of them. Each chapter addresses the everyday lives of women in a certain period, placing them in historical context, and is followed by vignettes on women's organizations and notable individuals of the time. Native American, Hispanic, African American, Asian and Anglo women's stories hail from across the state--from the Eastern Plains to the Front Range to the Western Slope--and in their telling a more complete history of Colorado emerges. Colorado Women makes a significant contribution to the discussion of women's presence in Colorado that will be of interest to historians, students, and the general reader interested in Colorado, women's and western history.

Author : Kristen Iversen
Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1555662374

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Molly Brown by Kristen Iversen Pdf

Draws from letters, journals, court records, newspaper articles, family memoirs, and other authentic documentation to reconstruct the life of Margaret Tobin Brown, the Titanic survivor who inspired the musical "The Unsinkable Molly Brown"; discussing her early years in Hannibal, Missouri, her political work, and her family.

Author : Ruth Milkman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136247682

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Women, Work, and Protest by Ruth Milkman Pdf

As paid work becomes increasingly central in women’s lives, the history of their labor struggles assumes more and more importance. This volume represents the best of the new feminist scholarship in twentieth-century U.S. women’s labor history. Fourteen original essays illuminate the complex relationship between gender, consciousness and working-class activism, and deepen historical understanding of the contradictory legacy of trade unionism for women workers. The contributors take up a wide range of specific subjects, and write from diverse theoretical perspectives. Some of the essays are case studies of women’s participation in individual unions, organizing efforts, or strikes; others examine broader themes in women’s labor history, focusing on a specific time period; and still others explore the situation of particular categories of women workers over a longer time span. This collection extends the scope of current research and interpretation in women’s labor history, both conceptually and in terms of periodization – emphasis is placed on the post-World War I period where the literature is sparse. This book will be valuable for scholars, students and general readers alike.

Author : Sybil Oldfield
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0415257379

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International Woman Suffrage: July 1913-October 1914 by Sybil Oldfield Pdf

As the monthly periodical of the early twentieth century women's movement, "International Woman Suffrage" (originally "Ius Suffragii") was read by the leading figures of the suffrage movement in more than thirty countries. Featuring an in-depth introduction to the material and its social and historical context, this four-volume set reprints eight years of the journal, making this rare resource available to students and researchers in a variety of disciplines. In addition to women's fight for the vote, "International Woman Suffrage 1913-1920" covered such highly controversial topics as the age of consent for girls, alcohol control, education of girls, new employment openings for women, divorce law reform, health insurance for mothers, maternity benefits, minimum wages, prostitution, women medical workers, women police, women politicians, and other subjects of debate. Truly global for its time, issues included articles by women from Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bohemia, British India, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Rumania, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the USA.

Author : Susan Croce Kelly
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781682262368

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Newspaperwoman of the Ozarks by Susan Croce Kelly Pdf

"Newspaperwoman of the Ozarks is a long-overdue study of Lucile Morris Upton, one of the region's best-known reporters and local historians. A longtime reporter and columnist at Springfield Newspapers during a time when the remote Ozarks was reshaped from backcountry into a national vacation hub and the role of women in the United States shifted drastically, Upton not only reported on these rapidly changing times but also personified them in her own life. In this significant contribution to the historical research of Ozarkers' daily lives, author Susan Croce Kelly traces Upton's life, from teaching school to covering the news to governing her city and raising awareness for historic preservation, and paints a vivid picture of Ozarks culture over nearly a century of change"--

Author : Anne Firor Scott,Andrew MacKay Scott
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Law
ISBN : 0252010051

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One Half the People by Anne Firor Scott,Andrew MacKay Scott Pdf

Author : R. Todd Laugen
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781457109638

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The Gospel of Progressivism by R. Todd Laugen Pdf

Chronicling the negotiations of Progressive groups and the obstacles that constrained them, The Gospel of Progressivism details the fight against corporate and political corruption in Colorado during the early twentieth century. While the various groups differed in their specific agendas, Protestant reformers, labor organizers, activist women, and mediation experts struggled to defend the public against special-interest groups and their stranglehold on Colorado politics. Sharing enemies like the party boss and corporate lobbyist who undermined honest and responsive government, Progressive leaders were determined to root out selfish political action with public exposure. Labor unions defied bosses and rallied for government protection of workers. Women's clubs appealed to other women as mothers, calling for social welfare, economic justice, and government responsiveness. Protestant church congregations formed a core of support for moral reform. Labor relations experts struggled to prevent the outbreak of violence through mediation between corporate employers and organized labor. Persevering through World War I, Colorado reformers faced their greatest challenge in the 1920s, when leaders of the Ku Klux Klan drew upon the rhetoric of Protestant Progressives and manipulated reform tools to strengthen their own political machine. Once in power, Klan legislators turned on Progressive leaders in the state government. A story of promising alliances never fully realized, zealous crusaders who resisted compromise, and reforms with unexpected consequences, The Gospel of Progressivism will appeal to those interested in Progressive Era reform, Colorado history, labor relations, and women's activism.

Author : Sybil Oldfield
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0415257409

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International Woman Suffrage: October 1918-September 1920 by Sybil Oldfield Pdf

As the monthly periodical of the early twentieth century women's movement, "International Woman Suffrage" (originally "Ius Suffragii") was read by the leading figures of the suffrage movement in more than thirty countries. Featuring an in-depth introduction to the material and its social and historical context, this four-volume set reprints eight years of the journal, making this rare resource available to students and researchers in a variety of disciplines. In addition to women's fight for the vote, "International Woman Suffrage 1913-1920" covered such highly controversial topics as the age of consent for girls, alcohol control, education of girls, new employment openings for women, divorce law reform, health insurance for mothers, maternity benefits, minimum wages, prostitution, women medical workers, women police, women politicians, and other subjects of debate. Truly global for its time, issues included articles by women from Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bohemia, British India, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Rumania, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the USA.

Author : Upton Sinclair
Publisher : Delphi Classics
Page : 9654 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781801701174

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Delphi Collected Works of Upton Sinclair US (Illustrated) by Upton Sinclair Pdf

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1943, Upton Sinclair was a prolific American novelist and polemicist for socialism, health, temperance, free speech and worker rights. His classic muckraking novel ‘The Jungle’ is regarded as a landmark naturalistic proletarian work, praised by Jack London as “the ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ of wage slavery.” This comprehensive eBook presents Sinclair’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Sinclair’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major novels * 28 novels, with individual contents tables * Features rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Includes a selection of Sinclair’s plays and non-fiction * Features two autobiographies – discover Sinclair’s intriguing life * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres CONTENTS: The Novels A Prisoner of Morro (1898) Springtime and Harvest (1901) The Journal of Arthur Stirling (1903) On Guard (1903) The West Point Rivals (1903) A West Point Treasure (1903) A Cadet’s Honor (1903) The Cruise of the Training Ship (1903) Manassas (1904) A Captain of Industry (1906) The Jungle (1906) The Overman (1907) The Metropolis (1908) The Moneychangers (1908) Samuel the Seeker (1910) Love’s Pilgrimage (1911) Damaged Goods (1913) Sylvia (1913) Sylvia’s Marriage (1914) King Coal (1917) Jimmie Higgins (1919) 100%: The Story of a Patriot (1920) They Call Me Carpenter (1922) The Millennium (1924) The Spokesman’s Secretary (1926) Oil! (1927) Boston (1928) Affectionately Eve (1961) The Plays Plays of Protest (1912) The Pot Boiler (1913) The Non-Fiction The Industrial Republic (1907) Good Health and How We Won It (1909) The Fasting Cure (1911) The Profits of Religion (1917) The Brass Check (1919) The Goose-Step (1923) The Goslings (1924) Mammonart (1925) Letters to Judd, an American Workingman (1925) Mental Radio (1930) The Book of Love (1934) The Autobiography The Autobiography of Upton Sinclair (1962)