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Reenactment of printing newspapers in 18th-century colonial America. This list of women printers and publishers before 1800 includes women active as printers or publishers prior to the 19th century. Before the printing press was invented, books were made from pages written by scribes, and it could take up to a year or two for a book to be ...
Anne McDowell was the first American woman to publish a newspaper completely run by women; it was circulated weekly and titled, "Women's Advocate". [24] [25] Emeline Roberts Jones was the first woman to practice dentistry in the United States. [26] She married the dentist Daniel Jones when she was a teenager, and became his assistant in 1855. [27]
Up From the Footnote: A History of Women Journalists. (1977) Miller, Sally M. The Ethnic Press in the United States: A Historical Analysis and Handbook. (1987) Mott, Frank Luther. American Journalism: A History of Newspapers in the United States, 1690–1960 (3rd ed. 1962). major reference source and interpretive history. Nord, David Paul.
Bruton, Elizabeth. "'Uncertain at Present for Women, but May Increase': Opportunities for Women in Wireless Telegraphy during the First World War." Information & Culture 55.1 (2020): 51–74. Gabler, Edwin (1988). The American Telegrapher: A Social History, 1860-1900. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0813512840. Glew, Helen.
This is a list of defunct newspapers of the United States. Only notable names among the thousands of such newspapers are listed, primarily major metropolitan dailies which published for ten years or more.
The new news writing style first spread to the provincial press through the Midland Daily Telegraph around 1900. [29] Newspapers increasingly made their profit from selling advertising. In the 1850s and 1860s the ads appealed to the increasingly affluent middle-class that sought out a variety of new products.
The 1962 New York City newspaper strike, longest newspaper strike in U.S. history ended. The 9 major newspapers in New York City had ceased publication over 114 days before. 10 June 1963 (United States) Congress passed the Equal Pay Act mandating equal pay to women. [42] 1965 (United States) United Farm Workers Organizing Committee founded. [42]
"The Kansas Women's Page" section of the Topeka Daily Capital in 1920. The women's page (sometimes called home page or women's section) of a newspaper was a section devoted to covering news assumed to be of interest to women. Women's pages started out in the 19th century as society pages and eventually morphed into features sections in the ...