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Nancy C. Unger

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Email: nunger@scu.edu

Ph.D. University of Southern California, 1985
M.A. University of Southern California, 1981
B.A. Gonzaga University, 1978

HIST 84 U.S. Women's History
HIST 101 Historical Writing
HIST 158 Turmoil and Reform, U.S. 1877-1920
HIST 177 Gay Men and Lesbians in American History
HIST 181 Women in American Society Since 1900
HIST 188S Seminar: The U.S. Progressive Era

Advisor, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum, 2024-Present
President, Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 2021-2023

A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (Wiley-Blackwell), Co-edited with Christopher McKnight Nichols, 2017.

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Winner of the 2016 Wisconsin Historical Society Book of Merit Award

a 3 minute film about Belle La Follette

Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History. Oxford University Press, 2012.

California Book Award finalist

Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Revised paperback edition with new preface, Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2008.

Winner of Wisconsin Historical Society 2001 Book of Merit Award.

1. “The La Follettes,” in Modern American Political Dynasties: A Study of Power, Family and Political Influence, Kathleen Gronnerud and Scott Spitzer, eds., Praeger Press, 2018.
2. “Using the Constitution to Limit Revolutions in Morality: The Diggs-Caminetti Case of 1913,” On-Going Revolutions in the U.S. and Europe, Marie Bolton and Marie-Elisabeth Baudin, eds.,Paris: Librarie generale de dtroit et de jurisprudence, 2017.
3. “Women and Gender: Useful Categories of Analysis in Environmental History,” Oxford Handbook of Environmental History, Andrew Isenberg, ed., (Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 600-643.
4. “The Role of Nature in Lesbian Alternative Environments in the United States : From Jook Joints to Sisterspace,” Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Biopolitics, and Desire, edited by Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands and Bruce Erickson, University of Indiana Press, 2010, pp. 173-198.
5. "'When Women Condemn the Whole Race': Belle Case La Follette Attacks the Color Line." In Women in Print, edited by James P. Danky and Wayne Wiegand. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006, pp. 281-296.

"Legislating Morality in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era: Moral Panic and the 'White Slave' Case That Changed America," The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 23, no. 2 (April 2024): 141-169. ()

“Legacies of Belle La Follette’s Big Tent Campaigns for Women’s Suffrage,” American Journalism 36, no. 1 (Spring 2019): 51-70. ()

“The Unexpected Belle La Follette,” Wisconsin Magazine of History 99, no. 2 (Winter 2015-2016): 16-27. ()

"Women for a Peaceful Christmas: Wisconsin Homemakers Seek to Remake American Culture,” Wisconsin Magazine of History 93, no. 2 (Winter 2009-2010): 2-15. ()

"Teaching 'Straight' Gay and Lesbian History." Journal of American History 93 (March 2007): 1192-99. [Electronic Journal, .]

2. "The American Gilded Age: Everything You Wanted to Know," The BBC's HistoryExtra.com, 10 December 2023. Available on and .
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