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    Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé

    Elizabeth Cobbs talked about the history of women’s rights through the stories of different women from the colonial era to the 21st century. Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C.,…

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    Q&A with Elizabeth Cobbs

    Texas A&M University American history professor Elizabeth Cobbs, author of Fearless Women, talked about the history of feminism and feminists in the United States from the American Revolutio…

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    The Weekly on the Presidential Survey Results

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    In this episode of “The Weekly,” guests were Rachel Katz, Survey Project Coordinator, and two of the historians that participated, Professor Elizabeth Cobbs from Texas A&M University and aut…

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    The Hello Girls

    During World War I, the U.S. Army Signal Corps sent over 200 women to France to assist in the war effort. In her book, The Hello Girls, Elizabeth Cobbs explained their role and how vital it …

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    The Tubman Command

    Elizabeth Cobbs talked about her book, The Tubman Command: A Novel, in which she recounted Harriet Tubman’s service as a nurse, spy, and cook, for the Union Army during the Civil War.

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    Elizabeth Cobbs and Mark Kramer on the Cold War in 1968

    Historian and documentary filmmaker Elizabeth Cobbs and Mark Kramer, program director of Harvard University’s Project on Cold War Studies, talked about the Cold War as part of C-SPAN’s “1968…

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    U.S. Women Soldiers During World War I

    Elizabeth Cobbs talked about the women who served overseas as telephone operators in the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War I. She also spoke about how their service affected the women’…

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    Panel Discussion on Women During Wartime

    Three authors talked about their books on women in the military: The Hello Girls: America’s First Women Soldiers, Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World Wa…

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