American Women — Women’s history

  • Letters of a woman homesteader (Series title)

    Readings of letters written by a woman homesteader, Elinore Pruitt Stewart (1876-1933) in Wyoming from 1909-1913. The materials used in this program come from “Letters of a woman homesteader” by Elinore Pruitt Stewart, published by the Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. Elinore Stewart’s letters were copyrighted by herself and by Atlantic Monthly in 1913. The letters…

  • Government surveillance and the control of women: Berkshire Conference on the History of Women

    This recording contains of excerpts (not complete) of the panel “Government Surveillance and the Control of Women” at the Fifth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women. The conference was held ca. June 16-18, 1981 at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY.  Speakers and talks were the following: Blanche Wiesen Cook of John Jay College on…

  • Radical History Radio: Feminism in the 1800s

    Interview with Ellen DuBois, Associate Professor of History and American Studies at SUNY Buffalo, on her new book entitled “Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony: correspondence, writings, speeches.” DuBois discusses the origins of feminism in England with Mary Wollstonecraft and Frances Wright. While the US feminist movement in the 1920’s fought for education for women…

  • In the Maccabean Tradition: Miss Emma Lazarus

    Jewish Currents presents a dramatic presentation of the life of American Sephardic Jewish poet Emma Lazarus (1849 – 1887), titled “In the Maccabean Tradition: Miss Emma Lazarus.” Featuring Amelia Romano as Emma Lazarus, Benes Marden as Rabbi Jakob, Alex Paul as Susskind von Orb, and Rick Harris as Spokesman for the Nordhausen Council. Written and…

  • Focus on Women Composers: Renaissance through late Baroque, June 5, 1976 (Episode 3)

    The first in a series of four episodes of “Focus on Women Composers” providing a historical survey of various musical periods and styles from the Renaissance to the present. This episode covers women composers from the Renaissance through the late Baroque (1500-1750). Contents: 1. Harpsichord concerto in G minor, Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth…

  • Majority report, February 25, 1982

    Julia Randall and Ginny Z. Berson host Majority Report, February 25, 1982. 1. News wrap-up — 2. A look at the civic and political life of Black women in Victorian America, the period known as the “Gay Nineties”, a short condensation of a longer Women’s Magazine program, “19th Century Black Club Women,” that aired the…

  • Annette Rubenstein talks to Blanch Cook about her book on Crystal Eastman

    Annette Rubinstein, editor of Science and Society, literary historian and critic, and veteran radical political activist, speaks with Blanche Cook, Associate professor at John Jay College and author of a recent book on the life and writings of Crystal Eastman, a socialist and feminist active during the early part of the twentieth century. Note “Use…

  • Jewish women in New York

    Tapes selected from a panel on immigrant Jewish women which was part of a conference on Culture and Community among New York Jews which took place January 27-29, 1979, sponsored by the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research in cooperation with the Center for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University and made possible by a…

  • …What time of night it is (Part 1 only)

    “…What time of night it is” by Patricia Horan & Marjorie DeFazio is a woman’s history musical. It has 16 songs, and the outrageous, revolutionary words of Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Victoria Woodhull, Margaret Sanger, and a dozen other fascinating women. Singer/guitarist is Hilary Morgan. The cast includes: Natalie…

  • Women and the unfinished American revolution

    A special solute to women and the unfinished American Revolution, looking at the Revolutionary period through women’s eyes. Hosted and produced by Phyllis Kriegel, including readings by Sammy Krommin[sp?], interview with historian Linda Kerber, a brief phone interview with author Charlotte Bunch about the future for Women’s rights post-ERA, and songs of the American Revolutionary…