Participant Info
- First Name
- Janet
- Last Name
- Olson
- Country
- United States
- State
- IL Illinois
- archives@franceswillardhouse.org
- Affiliation
- Frances Willard House Museum and WCTU Archives
- Website URL
- www.http://franceswillardhouse.org/research
- Keywords
- temperance, US women's history, social reform, woman suffrage, transnational women's history, women's organizations, gilded age and progressive era
- Availability
- 1
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- other credentials
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Janet Olson was the Assistant University Archivist at Northwestern University for 22 years, from 1998 until her recent retirement (May, 2020). Meanwhile, she has been the part-time Archivist for the Frances Willard House Museum and WCTU Archives in Evanston, IL, since 2007. Olson is a Certified Archivist, and has held leadership roles in local, regional, and national professional organizations. She holds a Master’s Degree in History from Loyola University Chicago. Her research focuses on 19th-century social reform movements.
- Recent Publications
On the Same Terms: The Beginnings of Coeducation at Northwestern University, exhibition catalog, Northwestern University, 2019
“Frances Willard,” in the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History, ed. Lynn Dumenil, 2012
Deering Library: An Illustrated History (co-author), Northwestern University Press, 2008
“Washington Gladden” and “Josiah Strong,” in the Encyclopedia of American Urban History, ed. David R. Goldfield, Sage Publications, Inc., 2006
“W.D.P. Bliss,” “Herbert Bigelow,” and “Social Gospel [major entry],” in the Encyclopedia of Modern Christian Politics, eds. Roy Domenico and Mark Hanley, Greenwood Press, 2006
“W.D.P. Bliss,” “B.O. Flower,” “George Herron,” “Vida Scudder,” “Charles Sheldon,” and “William T. Stead,” in the Encyclopedia of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, eds. John Buenker and Joseph Buenker, M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2005
“In His Steps: A Social Gospel Novel,” in Religions of the United States in Practice, ed. Colleen McDannell, Princeton University Press, 2002
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @archiveswillard
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Libraries & Archives, Local & Regional, Public History, Women