Women's History Month
Our corner of the Midwest has been home to significant milestones, events and figures in the history of the women’s movement, and women's fight for liberation and equality in the United States.
For the 2026 Women’s History Month, students of history at Northwest Missouri State University have produced this series to share some of those stories.
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Review of Jennifer Mara DeSilve, Griffin Hamilton, and Samantha Kidder, “Cocaine Alley Queens: Gender, Race, and Drug Use in American Midwestern Cities, 1890-1920,”Urban History (2025): 1-34.
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Review of Sharon Romeo "Criminal Seduction and Women's Citizenship in Iowa, 1865-1879,"The Annals of Iowa V79 I1 (2020): 35-55.
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Review of Sharon Romeo "Criminal Seduction and Women's Citizenship in Iowa, 1865-1879,"The Annals of IowaV79 I1(2020):35-55.
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Review of Petra Dewitt, "Heroines on the Home Front: World War I and the Council of National Defense's Woman's Committee, Missouri Division," Missouri Historical Review 112:3 (April 2018), 169-188.
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Review of Jennifer Mara DeSilve, Griffin Hamilton, and Samantha Kidder, “Cocaine Alley Queens: Gender, Race, and Drug Use in American Midwestern Cities, 1890-1920,” Urban History (2025): 1-34.
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Review of Kristin Mapel Bloomberg, “‘Striving for Equal Rights for All’: Woman Suffrage in Nebraska, 1855- 1882,” Nebraska History 90 (2009): 84-103.
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Review of Kristin Mapel Bloomberg, “‘Striving for Equal Rights for All’: Woman Suffrage in Nebraska, 1855- 1882,” Nebraska History 90 (2009): 84-103.
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Review of Isaias J. McCaffery, "Mashers, Dudes, and Street Loafers:The Harassment of Kansas Women inLate-Nineteenth-Century Public Spaces." Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains 46, no. 4. (Winter 2023-24): 210–229.
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Review of Isaias J. McCaffery, "Mashers, Dudes, and Street Loafers:The Harassment of Kansas Women inLate-Nineteenth-Century Public Spaces." Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains 46, no. 4. (Winter 2023-24): 210–229.
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Review of: Dr. Sharon Romeo, “The First Morning of Their Freedom: African American Women, Black Testimony, and Military Justice in Civil War Missouri” Missouri Historical Review 110, no. 3 (April 2016) 196-216.