Nancy C. Unger Explained

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.^[1]

She has appeared on C-Span several times. She discussed Bob La Follette on PBS North Carolina.^[2]

Unger suggested Belle La Follette appear on a newly designed $10 bill.^[3] She supports a California law requiring the teaching of LGBT history in public schools.^[4]

Selected works

• Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer^[5]
• Belle La Follette: Progressive Era Reformer^[6]
• Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History^{[7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]}
• A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, co-editor with Christopher McKnight Nichols^{[13] [14]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Nancy C. Unger . Illuminate . Santa Clara University.
2. Web site: University Place | Fighting Bob La Follette's Progressivism. video.pbsnc.org.
3. Web site: Author believes Fighting Bob's wife deserves to be new face of $10 bill. Rob Schultz | Wisconsin State. Journal. madison.com.
4. Web site: Nancy Unger hails California law that requires the teaching of LGBT history | History News Network. historynewsnetwork.org.
5. Lorence . James J. . Fighting Bob LaFollette: The Righteous Reformer, by Nancy C. Unger. . Book reviews . The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography . 2001 . July 2001 . CXXV . 3 . 293–294 .
6. 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.. Jørn. Brøndal. January 12, 2017. The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. 16. 1. 100–102. Cambridge University Press. 10.1017/S1537781416000530. 164718665 .
7. Book Review: Unger, Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History, by Catherine McNeur. Catherine. McNeur. February 1, 2014. Pacific Historical Review. 83. 1. 145–146. online.ucpress.edu. 10.1525/phr.2014.83.1.145.
8. Sayer. Karen. 2015-01-02. Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American women in environmental historyNANCY C. UNGER. Women's History Review. 24. 1. 131–132. 10.1080/09612025.2014.906834. 145083378 . 0961-2025.
9. GOWDY-WYGANT. CECILIA. 2014. Review of Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History. Environment and History. 20. 3. 463–465. 43298566 . 0967-3407.
10. Flanagan. Maureen A.. 2014-01-30. Nancy C. Unger. Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History.. The American Historical Review. 119. 1. 167–168. 10.1093/ahr/119.1.167. 1937-5239.
11. Mauldin. Erin Stewart. 2014-07-03. Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History. History: Reviews of New Books. 42. 3. 87–88. 10.1080/03612759.2014.887982. 145371151 . 0361-2759.
12. Macdonald. Peggy. 2014-12-14. Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History. By Nancy Unger.. Environmental History. 20. 1. 137–139. 10.1093/envhis/emu111. 1084-5453.
13. Web site: Nancy Unger - College of Arts and Sciences - Santa Clara University. www.scu.edu.
14. Web site: Unger, Nancy C. [WorldCat Identities]].