Joanne L. Goodwin is an Associate Professor in the Department
of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is the author of
Gender and the Politics of Welfare Reform: Mothers' Pensions in
Chicago, 1911-1929 (Chicago, 1997); and co-editor, with Joyce
Appleby and Eileen Cheng, of Women in American History, 1585Ñpresent.
(New York, 2002). Goodwin is currently working on a documentary
history of women in Las Vegas.
Priscilla Murolo teaches history at Sarah Lawrence College,
where she also directs the graduate program in women's history. She
is the author of The Common Ground of Womanhood: Class, Gender,
and Working Girls' Clubs (Urbana, 1997) and co-author of From
the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short Illustrated History
of Labor in the United States (New York, 2001).
Nancy J. Rosenbloom is Professor of History and Chair of the
History Department at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, where
she regularly teaches courses in social and urban history. In addition
to her articles on film censorship in the Progressive Era, she is
the author of "In that Golden Land: The Spiritual Odyssey of Henry
Roth's Call It Sleep" in the 1998 issue of Prospects.
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