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Nancy C. Unger

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Nancy C. Unger is an American history professor and author. She chairs the history department at Santa Clara University. She has written books on American women in the environmental movement, Bob La Follette, and Belle La Follette.

She was born in Seattle and graduated from Gonzaga University in 1978. She received her masters and Ph.D. from the University of Southern California.[1]

She has appeared on C-Span several times. She discussed Bob La Follette on PBS North Carolina.[2]

Unger suggested Belle La Follette appear on a newly designed $10 bill.[3] She supports a California law requiring the teaching of LGBT history in public schools.[4]

Selected works

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  • Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer[5]
  • Belle La Follette: Progressive Era Reformer[6]
  • Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History[7][8][9][10][11][12]
  • A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, co-editor with Christopher McKnight Nichols[13][14]

References

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  1. ^ "Nancy C. Unger". Illuminate. Santa Clara University.
  2. ^ "University Place | Fighting Bob La Follette's Progressivism" – via video.pbsnc.org.
  3. ^ Journal, Rob Schultz | Wisconsin State. "Author believes Fighting Bob's wife deserves to be new face of $10 bill". madison.com.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ "Nancy Unger hails California law that requires the teaching of LGBT history | History News Network". historynewsnetwork.org.
  5. ^ Lorence, James J. (2001). "Fighting Bob LaFollette: The Righteous Reformer, by Nancy C. Unger". Book reviews. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. CXXV (3) (published July 2001): 293–294.
  6. ^ Brøndal, Jørn (January 12, 2017). "FEMINIST PROGRESSIVE - Nancy C. Unger Belle La Follette: Progressive Era Reformer. New York: Routledge, 2016. xiii + 204 pp. 34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-138-77977-8". The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. 16 (1): 100–102. doi:10.1017/S1537781416000530. S2CID 164718665 – via Cambridge University Press.
  7. ^ McNeur, Catherine (February 1, 2014). "Book Review: Unger, Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History, by Catherine McNeur". Pacific Historical Review. 83 (1): 145–146. doi:10.1525/phr.2014.83.1.145 – via online.ucpress.edu.
  8. ^ Sayer, Karen (January 2, 2015). "Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American women in environmental historyNANCY C. UNGER". Women's History Review. 24 (1): 131–132. doi:10.1080/09612025.2014.906834. ISSN 0961-2025. S2CID 145083378.
  9. ^ GOWDY-WYGANT, CECILIA (2014). "Review of Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History". Environment and History. 20 (3): 463–465. ISSN 0967-3407. JSTOR 43298566.
  10. ^ Flanagan, Maureen A. (January 30, 2014). "Nancy C. Unger. Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History". The American Historical Review. 119 (1): 167–168. doi:10.1093/ahr/119.1.167. ISSN 1937-5239.
  11. ^ Mauldin, Erin Stewart (July 3, 2014). "Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History". History: Reviews of New Books. 42 (3): 87–88. doi:10.1080/03612759.2014.887982. ISSN 0361-2759. S2CID 145371151.
  12. ^ Macdonald, Peggy (December 14, 2014). "Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History. By Nancy Unger". Environmental History. 20 (1): 137–139. doi:10.1093/envhis/emu111. ISSN 1084-5453.
  13. ^ "Nancy Unger - College of Arts and Sciences - Santa Clara University". www.scu.edu.
  14. ^ "Unger, Nancy C. [WorldCat Identities]".
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