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Review published on Saturday, February 22, 2020
Author: 
Louise Ryan
Reviewer: 
Padraig Lawlor

Lawlor on Ryan, 'Winning the Vote for Women: The Irish Citizen Newspaper and the Suffrage Movement in Ireland'

Louise Ryan. Winning the Vote for Women: The Irish Citizen Newspaper and the Suffrage Movement in Ireland. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2018. 200 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-84682-701-3.

Reviewed by Padraig Lawlor (Purdue University) Published on Jhistory (February, 2020) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe

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Review published on Thursday, February 20, 2020
Author: 
Wayne Calhoun Temple, Douglas L. Wilson, Rodney O.; Davis
Reviewer: 
Evan C. Rothera

Rothera on Borchard, 'Abraham Lincoln and Horace Greeley' and Temple and Wilson and Davis and , 'Lincoln's Confidant: The Life of Noah Brooks'

Gregory A. Borchard. Abraham Lincoln and Horace Greeley. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2019. 168 pp. $16.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8093-3046-1.Wayne Calhoun Temple, Douglas L. Wilson, Rodney O.; Davis. Lincoln's Confidant: The Life of Noah Brooks. Edited by Dougdas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019. xvii + 283 pp.

Discussion published by Tim Satterthwaite on Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Future States: Modernity and national identity in popular magazines, 1890-1945

Future States, a nearly carbon-neutral conference (NCNC) hosted by the Centre for Design History, University of Brighton, is now open for registration. The conference explores the constructive tensions between modernity and nationalism in popular magazines across the globe, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Discussion published by Maria Garth on Saturday, February 1, 2020

ASEEES 2020: Panel on Soviet Photography

For ASEEES 2020, I am organizing a panel on the history of photography in the Soviet Union. Relevant topics for the panel include photography in Soviet periodicals such as USSR in Construction and Soviet Photo, aesthetic debates in Soviet photography, understudied Soviet photographers, careers of Soviet women photographers and photojournalists, Soviet photography clubs, Soviet photography exhibitions, and the like.