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Category: Women’s History

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Baseball, Music, and Suffrage? Exploring the Music of the “National Pastime”

Posted by: Danna Bell

Did you know that “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” originally had extra stanzas beyond the ones we all know? When it was composed in 1908 by Albert Von Tilzer and lyricist Jack Norworth, it documented the story of Katie Casey, a baseball fan who wanted to go with her beau to the baseball game. Though there were certainly women who were knowledgeable about their favorite teams, it was expected that women would not want to go to the games and would prefer to be safe at home.

Posted in: Fine and Performing Arts, Women's History

One woman watches as another examines with a magnifying glass an ornate, decorative image on a printed page

Women Documenting History: Primary Sources from the Library of Congress on Women Photojournalists

Posted by: Danna Bell

You and your students may know the names of Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, or Clare Boothe Luce. Fewer, however, will know the names of the photographers Helen Johns Kirtland or Toni Frissell, who documented wars, often from the front lines.

Posted in: Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945), Veterans and Military History, Women's History