Tag: Nancy F. Cott

  • Nation & World

    Reporting on the world between the wars

    Harvard historian Nancy F. Cott looks at the international journalists who brought the world home between wars.

    10 minutes
    Dorothy Thompson newswoman from the 1940s.
  • Nation & World

    Foreshadowing feminism

    Organizing and canvassing for anti-slavery petitions by women from 1833 to 1845 was a transformational training ground for suffragettes and other social activists following the Civil War.

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Life lessons

    On a sultry August day three decades ago, historian Jean Strouse ’67 stopped in Harvard Square to buy daisies. She walked on to the nearby grave site of diarist Alice James, who died in 1892.

    6 minutes