We're History: Vera Glaser
My post about political columnist and women's page journalist Vera Glaser is now up on We're History.
View ArticleTalking about The Food Section
I had a great time talking about The Food Section on the radio program A Taste of the Past. The interview is now available as a podcast, available here.
View ArticleHelen Muir's Miami Tea Parties
I am working on one of my papers for the 2015 Florida Conference of Historians that I will be presenting next month in Lakeland. It's called "Miami Maven Helen Muir: Writer, Historian, Advocate &...
View ArticleGreat Food History Story in Austin American-Statesman
I truly appreciate this Austin American-Statesman story about my book The Food Section. A great lead: "Kimberly Wilmot Voss admits that her 2014 book “The Food Section” was motivated in part by...
View ArticleClementine Paddleford & The Gasparilla Cookbook
I have been working on my paper for the Florida Conference of Historians about the Tampa Junior League and its publication, The Gasparilla Cookbook. The conference is less than 2 weeks away.First...
View ArticleFlorida Conference of Historians: The Gasparilla Cookbook
FCH.gasparilla cookbook.presentation from Kimberly VossToday I am presenting a paper about The Gasparilla Cookbook and food editor Clementine Paddleford at the Florida Conference of Historians.
View ArticleFlorida Conference of Historians: Helen Muir
FCH.Miami Maven Helen Muir. 2015 from Kimberly VossToday's presentation at the Florida Conference of Historians is about Miami journalist Helen Muir.
View ArticleTalking about Mad Men & Working Women
I am looking forward to talking about Mad Men and Working Women: Feminist Perspectives on Historical Power, Resistance, and Otherness at UCF next week.Advertising women from the 1950s and 1960s were...
View ArticleBook Review: When Private Talk Goes Public
I was happy to see this review of When Private Talk Goes Public. I wrote a chapter about the women's pages of newspapers in the 1950s and 1960s.From New Books in American Studies:"Across a series of...
View ArticleNevada Journalist Ruthe Deskin
I love this post about Ruthe Deskin who went from Reno women's page editor to assistant to the publisher at the Las Vegas Sun. It was written by Ruthe's daughter, Nancy Cummings.Lance and I wrote an...
View ArticleMs Magazine Blog Post: Carol Sutton
Happy Women's History Month! The Ms Magazine blog featured my post today about women's page editor turned managing editor Carol Sutton.
View ArticlePoliticking Politely: Well-Behaved Women Making a Difference
I am excited to announce that I have signed a book contact for my project "Politicking Politely: Well-Behaved Women Making a Difference in the 1960s and 1970s."This book will detail the relatively...
View ArticleThe First Lady of Wine Journalism: Ruth Ellen Church
I just had a paper accepted for presentation at Food Studies in the fall. It's called "The First Lady of Wine Journalism: Ruth Ellen Church."The first person to write a wine column for an American...
View ArticleWomen's History Month, 2015
March is Women's History Month. Last year, I blogged each day in March about top food editors from my book, The Food Section. This year I blogged for different publications for Women's History Month.I...
View ArticleThe Food Section Talk at the UCF Book Festival
My talk about The Food Section is a week from today at the UCF Book Festival.
View ArticleMy Ruth Ellen Church Research
My research about longtime Chicago Tribune foo editor Ruth Ellen Church (pen name = Mary Meade) is coming together. My biography of Church was recently published in Middle West Review published by the...
View ArticleThe Food Section: UCF Book Festival
I had a great time talking about The Food Section at the 2015 UCF Book Festival. There was a great turnout and I signed a few books.
View ArticleTalking About Florida Food Editors
Excited to announce that I will be speaking about the Florida food editors who are in my book, The Food Section, this summer. In June, I will be speaking each Friday in June at Rollins College in...
View ArticleHistory of Washington State Food Editors
I am going over the page proofs for the upcoming "Recipes & Reporting" for Columbia Magazine. The article is about the food editors from Washington State; all of the editors used pen names which...
View Article"“Crusaders, Not Subordinates": AEJMC Paper About Women Page Activism
Lance and I just learned that our paper “Crusaders, Not Subordinates: How Women’s Page Editors Worked to Change the Gender Climate Within APME and ASNE,” has been accepted for presentation at the 2015...
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