Nancy Unger
Biographic Data
| ID | 3601247 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy Unger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy |
| FAMILY NAME | Unger |
| SIGNATURE | UNGER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Santa Clara University |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-2019-8479 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Legislating Morality in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era: Moral Panic and the “White Slave” Case That Changed America
This article is based on the presidential address presented to the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era at the meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Los Angeles in 2023. Its focus is Maury Diggs and Drew Caminetti, two white men from Sacramento, California, charged with violating the Mann Act (known as the White Slave Trafficking Act) in 1913. The Gilded Age and Progressive Era obsession with white slavery,…
Walter Nugent and the Broadening of U.S. History
Former SHGAPE president Walter Nugent passed away in 2021. On April 1, 2023, historians gathered at the Organization of American Historians (OAH) annual meeting in Los Angeles, California, to remember him. William Deverell, Nancy Unger, Donna Gabaccia, Alan Lessoff, Charles Postel, and Annette Atkins spoke about Walter Nugent as a scholar, a colleague, a mentor, and a friend; then the audience joined in with their own memories and stories. The fo…
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: Betty Smith’s Bestselling Introduction to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
An analysis of Betty Smith’s bestselling coming-of-age novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn reveals how popular literature can serve as an important introduction to signature issues of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Industrialization, urbanization, and immigration are highlighted in the novel—as well as attendant problems including poverty, machine politics, child labor, and prejudice and discrimination. Profound ignorance about sexuality and conc…
Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco by Clare Sears
"Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco by Clare Sears." Canadian Journal of History, 51(3), pp. 625–626
Leslie Kemp Poole. Saving Florida: Women’s Fight for the Environment in the Twentieth Century
Journal Article Leslie Kemp Poole. Saving Florida: Women’s Fight for the Environment in the Twentieth Century. Get access Leslie Kemp Poole. Saving Florida: Women’s Fight for the Environment in the Twentieth Century. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2015. Pp. x, 274. $34.95. Nancy C. Unger Nancy C. Unger Santa Clara University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical …
Queering the Countryside: New Frontiers in Rural Queer Studies
As this collection's subtitle indicates, most of these sixteen essays emerge from the wide-ranging disciplines within queer studies rather than a more narrow focus on lgbtq (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) history. All are devoted in one way or another to deconstructing metronormativity, described by Jack Halberstam as the dominant story “of migration from ‘country’ to ‘town’” that “is a spatial narrative within which the subject move…
Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, vol. 3; Light and Shadows, 1910-1916
Volume 3 (of a projected four-volume series) of this documentary history of the anarchist Emma Goldman is a monumental work. It covers 1910 to 1916, seven of the most action-packed and ambitious years of Goldman's long career as a tireless activist dedicated to transforming the world politically, socially, and economically. The selection of documents provides admirable coverage of the Goldman whirlwind of this period: speeches, major essays, arti…
Rough Writing: Ethnic Authorship in Theodore Roosevelt’s America
Book Review| July 01 2010 Rough Writing: Ethnic Authorship in Theodore Roosevelt’s America Rough Writing: Ethnic Authorship in Theodore Roosevelt’s America. By Aviva F. Taubenfeld. New York: New York University Press, 2008. x + 241 pp. Photos, illustrations, notes, index, and bibliography. $22 (cloth). Nancy C. Unger Nancy C. Unger Santa Clara University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History…
The Role of Gender in Environmental Justice
Environmental Justice incorporates an inclusive definition of its subject matter, exploring the environmental burdens impacting all marginalized populations and communities. This expansive definition allows for the possibility that populations conventionally viewed as privileged can nevertheless be marginalized and suffer uniquely from environmental injustices. Employing such a definition can also reveal how an ostensibly powerless group can figh…
Teaching "Straight" Gay and Lesbian History
The importance of offering a lesbian and gay American history course was initially impressed upon me in 1986. A newly minted Ph.D., I was teaching my very first class: a U.S. history survey at San Francisco State University (sfsu). The course required each student to review a book of his or her choice on any topic in U.S. history. One student chose John D’Emilio’s Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the Uni…
Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer
Journal Article Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer. By Nancy C. Unger. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xiv, 393 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2545-X.) Get access Herbert E Margulies Herbert E Margulies University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 2, September 2001, Page 681, https://doi.org/10.2307/26751…
Queering the Countryside: New Frontiers in Rural Queer Studies
As this collection's subtitle indicates, most of these sixteen essays emerge from the wide-ranging disciplines within queer studies rather than a more narrow focus on lgbtq (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) history. All are devoted in one way or another to deconstructing metronormativity, described by Jack Halberstam as the dominant story “of migration from ‘country’ to ‘town’” that “is a spatial narrative within which the subject move…
Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer
Journal Article Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer. By Nancy C. Unger. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xiv, 393 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2545-X.) Get access Herbert E Margulies Herbert E Margulies University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 2, September 2001, Page 681, https://doi.org/10.2307/26751…
Teaching "Straight" Gay and Lesbian History
The importance of offering a lesbian and gay American history course was initially impressed upon me in 1986. A newly minted Ph.D., I was teaching my very first class: a U.S. history survey at San Francisco State University (sfsu). The course required each student to review a book of his or her choice on any topic in U.S. history. One student chose John D’Emilio’s Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the Uni…
The Role of Gender in Environmental Justice
Environmental Justice incorporates an inclusive definition of its subject matter, exploring the environmental burdens impacting all marginalized populations and communities. This expansive definition allows for the possibility that populations conventionally viewed as privileged can nevertheless be marginalized and suffer uniquely from environmental injustices. Employing such a definition can also reveal how an ostensibly powerless group can figh…
Rough Writing: Ethnic Authorship in Theodore Roosevelt’s America
Book Review| July 01 2010 Rough Writing: Ethnic Authorship in Theodore Roosevelt’s America Rough Writing: Ethnic Authorship in Theodore Roosevelt’s America. By Aviva F. Taubenfeld. New York: New York University Press, 2008. x + 241 pp. Photos, illustrations, notes, index, and bibliography. $22 (cloth). Nancy C. Unger Nancy C. Unger Santa Clara University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History…
Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, vol. 3; Light and Shadows, 1910-1916
Volume 3 (of a projected four-volume series) of this documentary history of the anarchist Emma Goldman is a monumental work. It covers 1910 to 1916, seven of the most action-packed and ambitious years of Goldman's long career as a tireless activist dedicated to transforming the world politically, socially, and economically. The selection of documents provides admirable coverage of the Goldman whirlwind of this period: speeches, major essays, arti…
Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco by Clare Sears
"Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco by Clare Sears." Canadian Journal of History, 51(3), pp. 625–626
Leslie Kemp Poole. Saving Florida: Women’s Fight for the Environment in the Twentieth Century
Journal Article Leslie Kemp Poole. Saving Florida: Women’s Fight for the Environment in the Twentieth Century. Get access Leslie Kemp Poole. Saving Florida: Women’s Fight for the Environment in the Twentieth Century. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2015. Pp. x, 274. $34.95. Nancy C. Unger Nancy C. Unger Santa Clara University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical …
Queering the Countryside: New Frontiers in Rural Queer Studies
As this collection's subtitle indicates, most of these sixteen essays emerge from the wide-ranging disciplines within queer studies rather than a more narrow focus on lgbtq (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) history. All are devoted in one way or another to deconstructing metronormativity, described by Jack Halberstam as the dominant story “of migration from ‘country’ to ‘town’” that “is a spatial narrative within which the subject move…
Legislating Morality in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era: Moral Panic and the “White Slave” Case That Changed America
This article is based on the presidential address presented to the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era at the meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Los Angeles in 2023. Its focus is Maury Diggs and Drew Caminetti, two white men from Sacramento, California, charged with violating the Mann Act (known as the White Slave Trafficking Act) in 1913. The Gilded Age and Progressive Era obsession with white slavery,…
Walter Nugent and the Broadening of U.S. History
Former SHGAPE president Walter Nugent passed away in 2021. On April 1, 2023, historians gathered at the Organization of American Historians (OAH) annual meeting in Los Angeles, California, to remember him. William Deverell, Nancy Unger, Donna Gabaccia, Alan Lessoff, Charles Postel, and Annette Atkins spoke about Walter Nugent as a scholar, a colleague, a mentor, and a friend; then the audience joined in with their own memories and stories. The fo…
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: Betty Smith’s Bestselling Introduction to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
An analysis of Betty Smith’s bestselling coming-of-age novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn reveals how popular literature can serve as an important introduction to signature issues of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Industrialization, urbanization, and immigration are highlighted in the novel—as well as attendant problems including poverty, machine politics, child labor, and prejudice and discrimination. Profound ignorance about sexuality and conc…
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