Kathleen Cairns
Teaches history and women’s studies at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Davis
Kathleen Cairns teaches history and women’s studies at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. A former reporter and editor for Knight-Ridder newspapers, she is the author of two books: Front-Page Women Journalists, 1920-1950, University of Nebraska Press, 2003; and the forthcoming The Enigma Woman, The Death Sentence of Nellie May Madison, University of Nebraska Press, spring 2007. She holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Davis.
Articles by
John Russwurm (1799-1851)
John Russwurm was a man ahead of his time. Centuries before scholars began debating such issues as “hegemony” and “the...
Fay Jackson (1902-1988)
As a generation of young African Americans broke new artistic and political ground in the Harlem Renaissance during the 1920s,...
