Scholar - Women Also Know History

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About Me: Rebecca Brenner Graham is author of Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins’s Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany (Kensington, 2025). She has a PhD in history and MA in public history from American University and a BA in history and philosophy from Mount Holyoke College. In 2023, she was awarded a Cokie Roberts Fellowship from the National Archives Foundation and a Rubenstein Center Research Fellowship from the White House Historical Association. Her writing has been published in the Washington Post, Time, Slate, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere.

Recent Publications: “The Classic Christmas Movie That Offers a Lesson About Antisemitism in America,” Time, 21 December 2023.

“Pitting religious freedom against Sunday mail goes back to the founding,” The Washington Post, 26 April 2023.

“Why the Philosophers Libertarians Love Always Come Out Worse for Wear,” Slate, 5 December 2022.

“French Cigarettes and a Lot of Coffee: On Skye C. Cleary’s ‘How to Be Authentic,’” Los Angeles Review of Books, 5 June 2022.

“Politicians have long courted Jews, even as antisemitism abounds,” The Washington Post, 30 January 2022.

“Attacking Sunday voting is part of a long tradition of controlling Black Americans,” The Washington Post, 4 March 2021.

“The woman behind Elizabeth Warren’s blueprint for the presidency,” The Washington Post, 23 September 2019.

“Women’s colleges should admit trans students. It’s wholly consistent with their mission,” The Washington Post, 10 January 2019.

“How to stop President Trump’s latest attacks on immigrants,” The Washington Post, 13 August 2018.