Participant Info
- First Name
- Nancy
- Last Name
- Unger
- Country
- United States
- State
- CA California
- nunger@scu.edu
- Affiliation
- Santa Clara University
- Website URL
- https://www.scu.edu/cas/history/faculty-and-staff/nancy-unger/
- Keywords
- US Progressive Era, US Women, Lesbians and Gays, US Environmental
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Nancy C. Unger is Professor and Chair of History at Santa Clara University. She’s the author of two award-winning biographies, Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer; and Belle La Follette: Progressive Era Reformer. Her book Beyond Nature’s Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History was a California Book Award finalist. Her new book, co-edited with Christopher McKnight Nichols, is A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. She is the author of dozens of scholarly articles and essays on the history of progressive reform. Her op-eds applying lessons of the past to present-day problems have appeared on TIME.com, CNN.com, and in newspapers nationwide, including the Chicago Sun-Times, Miami Herald, San Francisco Examiner, and the San Jose Mercury News. She has been featured multiple times on C-SPAN TV, consulted with Bill Moyers for PBS, and her radio appearances include National Public Radio, KQED, Air America, Wisconsin Public Radio, and Talking History.
- Recent Publications
- A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Co-edited with Christopher McKnight Nichols. Wiley-Blackwell. 2017.
- “Adda F. Howie: ‘America’s Outstanding Woman Farmer,’” Wisconsin Magazine of History 100th anniversary edition, 100, no. 4 (Summer 2017): 40-45.
- “Gender Politics in the Supreme Court’s Lochner Era: Interpreting the Constitution to Uphold Efforts to Limit Revolutions in American Morality,” On-Going Revolutions in the U.S. and Europe. Marie Bolton and Marie-Elisabeth Baudin, eds. (Paris, 2017): 317-336.
- Belle La Follette: Progressive Era Reformer. Routledge, 2016.
- Media Coverage
- http://c-spanvideo.org/search/?keywords=nancy+unger
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- American Presidents, Environment, Gender, Sexuality, World War I
