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First Name
Sara
Last Name
Egge
Affiliation
Centre College
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Keywords
woman suffrage, rural women's history, citizenship, agricultural history, food history, United States' history, ethnicity, immigration, naturalization, Midwestern history, gender
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About Me

I am the author of Woman Suffrage and Citizenship in the Midwest, 1870-1920, and teach history at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky.

Recent Publications

Woman Suffrage and Citizenship in the Midwest, 1870-1920 (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2018).

““Why the Woman Suffrage Story is a Midwestern Story,” Middle West Review, Spring 2018.

“Fighting for the Ballot: Ethnicity and Woman Suffrage on the South Dakota Plains,” in Votes for Women on the Northern Plains: Woman Suffrage in Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota, and North Dakota. Pierre: South Dakota Historical Society Press, [forthcoming].

Suffrage Campaign in South Dakota,” South Dakota History [under review].

[with Jenny Barker-Devine], “Putting the Farm First: Feminism and Rural American Women’s Activism in the Twentieth Century” in Feminisms and Ruralities (New York: Lexington Books, 2015).

“‘Strewn Knee Deep in Literature’: the Material Analysis of Print Literature and Woman Suffrage,” Agricultural History 88.3 (Fall 2014): 591-605.

Media Coverage
Country Focus
United States
Expertise by Geography
United States
Expertise by Chronology
19th century, 20th century
Expertise by Topic
Environment, Food History, Gender, Migration & Immigration, Politics, Rural & Agrarian History, Women