Nancy C. Unger is Professor and Chair of History at Santa Clara University, specializing in women’s history, LGBTQ history, and the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. She is vice-president of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and is the author of two award-winning biographies about Progressive Era leadership: Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer (The University of North Carolina Press, 2000) and Belle La Follette: Progressive Era Reformer (Routledge, 2016).Her book Beyond Nature’s Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History (Oxford University Press, 2012) was a California Book Award finalist. Unger co-edited A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017) and served as book review editor for the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
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