Faculty and Staff… Images of Women’s Sports, Decade by Decade 23 Jul 20251 Aug 2025 Early on this project, I reflected on the value of photographs as historical evidence, which "can be especially significant in answering historical questions on which other evidence is silent." But…
Announcements… Wrapping Up Our Oral History Project 28 Mar 2025 You may have noticed that not much has happened at this blog in recent weeks. While I expect that to change in April-May, as more time opens up in my…
Sources… From the Archives… College Women in 1992 15 Jan 2025 What was it like to be a woman studying at Bethel? That's an obviously important question to ask, in a history project that aspires "to tell a version of our…
Sources… From the Archives… Seminary Women in 1994 10 Jan 2025 While my sabbatical is now over, I'll continue to conduct research this spring and finish writing my women's history of Bethel University over the summer. I've been very happy with…
Sources From the Archives… a Cookbook 18 Dec 202418 Jan 2025 I love cooking almost as much as studying history, and cookbooks are some of my favorite historical sources. For example, when we look at 19th century views of gender in…
Faculty and Staff… From the Archives… an Op-ed 12 Dec 2024 Thus far, I've tended to use this blog to write the first drafts of stories that will likely feature, in some way, in our final project narrative. But once in…
Faculty and Staff… A Brief History of the Women’s Concerns Committee 3 Dec 20249 Dec 2024 Committee work tends to rank fairly low on the list of priorities for college professors, but starting in 1986, several Bethel faculty volunteered additional service time in order to identify…
Faculty and Staff… The Women’s History Month Devotionals 26 Nov 202429 Jan 2025 The beginning of March "means more than approaching midterms and spring break," The Clarion informed Bethel students that month in 1987; "it also means National Women's History Month." Both "a…
Sources… Student Newspapers as Historical Evidence 25 Oct 20249 Dec 2024 Perhaps the hardest thing to do as a Bethel historian is to recover the experience of the university's largest constituency: its students. That's partly because of the sheer size and…
Quantitative… Bethel’s Most Gendered Majors 16 Sep 20249 Dec 2024 Have Bethel's women been more likely to study certain fields than others? Have some majors historically been dominated by women, or by men? Has that changed over the years? I'm…
The Women of Bethel 