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Domesticity and Depression: Kentucky Coal Mining, Song, and Organizing During Bloody Harlan

This is a special episode researched and written by one of our interns, Olivia Langa. To find out more about the everyday lives of women in coal mining families we must look at the songs of less popular female Appalachian singers from the 1930s. One such place to look is Read more…

By Olivia Langa, 1 year1 year ago
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Fashion

Struggle for the Breeches: Pants, Women, and Power

Who wears the pants in this relationship? If someone asks you this question, you probably understand what they mean. Who is the dominant one in the relationship? Who holds the power, the influence, the final say? From its earliest utterances, it was intended to challenge women who dared to seize Read more…

By Averill Earls, 5 years2 years ago
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Winter

Get Lit: Heating and Illuminating Homes in Victorian Britain

Victorian Britons were obsessed with their homes. This was a period characterized by rapid industrialization, expansion of the availability of consumer goods, suburbanization, and the redefining of houses as domestic sanctuaries filled with the material evidence that a family was or was not “middle class.” Men and women no longer Read more…

By Averill Earls, 6 years2 years ago
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