Nancy C. Unger
{{Short description|American history professor and author}}
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Nancy C. Unger is an American history professor and author. She chairs the history department at Santa Clara University. She has written books on American women in the environmental movement, Bob La Follette, and Belle La Follette.
She was born in Seattle and graduated from Gonzaga University in 1978. She received her masters and Ph.D. from the University of Southern California.{{Cite web |title=Nancy C. Unger |url=https://www.scu.edu/illuminate/thought-leaders/nancy-c-unger/profile/ |website=Illuminate |publisher=Santa Clara University}}
She has appeared on C-Span several times. She discussed Bob La Follette on PBS North Carolina.{{Cite web|url=https://video.pbsnc.org/video/university-place-fighting-bob-la-follettes-progressivism-past-present/|title=University Place | Fighting Bob La Follette's Progressivism|via=video.pbsnc.org}}
Unger suggested Belle La Follette appear on a newly designed $10 bill.{{Cite web|url=https://madison.com/news/local/author-believes-fighting-bobs-wife-deserves-to-be-new-face-of-10-bill/article_a746a75d-3e1e-5009-adbc-df129954bc5f.html|title=Author believes Fighting Bob's wife deserves to be new face of $10 bill|first=Rob Schultz | Wisconsin State|last=Journal|website=madison.com}} She supports a California law requiring the teaching of LGBT history in public schools.{{Cite web|url=https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/163187|title=Nancy Unger hails California law that requires the teaching of LGBT history | History News Network|website=historynewsnetwork.org}}
Selected works
- Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer{{Cite journal |last=Lorence |first=James J. |title=Fighting Bob LaFollette: The Righteous Reformer, by Nancy C. Unger. |url=https://journals.psu.edu/pmhb/article/view/45475 |department=Book reviews |journal=The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography |year=2001 |publication-date=July 2001 |volume=CXXV |issue=3 |pages=293–294 }}
- Belle La Follette: Progressive Era Reformer{{Cite journal|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-gilded-age-and-progressive-era/article/abs/feminist-progressive-nancy-c-unger-belle-la-follette-progressive-era-reformer-new-york-routledge-2016-xiii-204-pp-15500-cloth-isbn-9781138779761-3495-paper-isbn-9781138779778/0F62C580F70114AADC80B3C00119A456|title=FEMINIST PROGRESSIVE - Nancy C. Unger Belle La Follette: Progressive Era Reformer. New York: Routledge, 2016. xiii + 204 pp. 34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-138-77977-8.|first=Jørn|last=Brøndal|date=January 12, 2017|journal=The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era|volume=16|issue=1|pages=100–102|via=Cambridge University Press|doi=10.1017/S1537781416000530|s2cid=164718665 |url-access=subscription}}
- Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History{{Cite journal|url=https://online.ucpress.edu/phr/article-abstract/83/1/145/80484/Book-Review-Unger-Beyond-Nature-s-Housekeepers?redirectedFrom=PDF|title=Book Review: Unger, Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History, by Catherine McNeur|first=Catherine|last=McNeur|date=February 1, 2014|journal=Pacific Historical Review|volume=83|issue=1|pages=145–146|via=online.ucpress.edu|doi=10.1525/phr.2014.83.1.145|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite journal|last=Sayer|first=Karen|date=2015-01-02|title=Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American women in environmental historyNANCY C. UNGER|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2014.906834|journal=Women's History Review|volume=24|issue=1|pages=131–132|doi=10.1080/09612025.2014.906834|s2cid=145083378 |issn=0961-2025|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite journal|last=GOWDY-WYGANT|first=CECILIA|date=2014|title=Review of Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43298566|journal=Environment and History|volume=20|issue=3|pages=463–465|jstor=43298566 |issn=0967-3407}}{{Cite journal|last=Flanagan|first=Maureen A.|date=2014-01-30|title=Nancy C. Unger. Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History.|url=https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/119.1.167|journal=The American Historical Review|volume=119|issue=1|pages=167–168|doi=10.1093/ahr/119.1.167|issn=1937-5239|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite journal|last=Mauldin|first=Erin Stewart|date=2014-07-03|title=Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/03612759.2014.887982|journal=History: Reviews of New Books|volume=42|issue=3|pages=87–88|doi=10.1080/03612759.2014.887982|s2cid=145371151 |issn=0361-2759|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite journal|last=Macdonald|first=Peggy|date=2014-12-14|title=Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History. By Nancy Unger.|url=https://doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emu111|journal=Environmental History|volume=20|issue=1|pages=137–139|doi=10.1093/envhis/emu111|issn=1084-5453|url-access=subscription}}
- A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, co-editor with Christopher McKnight Nichols{{Cite web|url=https://www.scu.edu/cas/history/faculty-and-staff/nancy-unger/|title=Nancy Unger - College of Arts and Sciences - Santa Clara University|website=www.scu.edu}}{{Cite web|url=http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n99262738/|title=Unger, Nancy C. [WorldCat Identities]}}
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Category:American women historians
Category:Historians from California
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:21st-century American women writers
Category:21st-century American historians
Category:Santa Clara University faculty
Category:Gonzaga University alumni
Category:University of Southern California alumni
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