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gender history

The Author’s Corner with Matthias André Voigt

Rachel Petroziello   |  October 30, 2024

Matthias André Voigt is Part-Time Lecturer in Modern American History at Free University Berlin. This interview is based on his new book, Reinventing the Warrior: Masculinity in the American Indian Movement, 1968-1973 (University Press of Kansas, 2024). JF: What led […]

The Author’s Corner with Rebecca L. Davis

Rachel Petroziello   |  October 4, 2024

Rebecca L. Davis is Miller Family Early Career Professor of History and Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Delaware. This interview is based on her new book, Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and […]

The Author’s Corner with Amanda E. Hayes

Rachel Petroziello   |  September 16, 2024

Amanda E. Hayes is Associate Professor of English at Kent State University Tuscarawas. This interview is based on her new book, The Madison Women: Gender, Higher Education, and Literacy in Nineteenth-Century Appalachia (West Virginia University Press, 2024). JF: What led […]

The Author’s Corner with Elizabeth Garner Masarik

Rachel Petroziello   |  June 27, 2024

Elizabeth Garner Masarik is Assistant Professor of History at the State University of New York, Brockport. This interview is based on her new book, The Sentimental State: How Women-Led Reform Built the American Welfare State (University of Georgia Press, 2024). […]

The Author’s Corner with Matthew Ward

Rachel Petroziello   |  November 8, 2023

Matthew Ward is Senior Lecturer in American History at the University of Dundee. This interview is based on his new book, Making the Frontier Man: Violence, White Manhood, and Authority in the Early Western Backcountry (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023). […]

The Author’s Corner with Bonnie Hagerman

Rachel Petroziello   |  June 20, 2023

Bonnie Hagerman is Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and Director of the Department’s Undergraduate Programs at the University of Virginia. This interview is based on her new book, Skimpy Coverage: Sports Illustrated and the Shaping of the Female […]

The Author’s Corner with Michael D. Pierson

Rachel Petroziello   |  April 4, 2023

Michael D. Pierson is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. This interview is based on his new book, The Wild Woman of Cincinnati: Gender and Politics on the Eve of the Civil War (LSU Press, 2023). JF: […]

My father didn’t need James Dobson to teach him how to be a patriarch. Focus on the Family had a different influence on him.

John Fea   |  March 13, 2023

I’ve made this point before, but I recently made it again on a WNYC (New York City’s National Public Radio station) podcast called “On the Divided Dial.” (It was repackaged and rereleased last week). I appreciate journalist Katie Thornton willingness […]

The Author’s Corner with Jennifer Helgren

Rachel Petroziello   |  January 19, 2023

Jennifer Helgren is Professor of History and Chair of the History Department at University of the Pacific. This interview is based on her new book, The Camp Fire Girls: Gender, Race, and American Girlhood, 1910–1980 (University of Nebraska Press, 2022). JF: […]

The Author’s Corner with Rodney Hessinger

Rachel Petroziello   |  December 14, 2022

Rodney Hessinger is Professor of History and Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at John Carroll University. This interview is based on his new book, Smitten: Sex, Gender, and the Contest for Souls in the Second Great Awakening (Cornell […]

The Author’s Corner with Susan Brandt

Rachel Petroziello   |  June 23, 2022

Susan Brandt is a lecturer in history at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. This interview is based on her new book, Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022). JF: What led you […]

On John Wilsey’s review of Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s Jesus and John Wayne

John Fea   |  February 11, 2022

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary church historian John Wilsey recently took a shot at Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s Jesus and John Wayne in a review published at a conservative website called Ad Fontes. Though Wilsey shows much more empathy than some […]