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Forgotten America

Summary

In FORGOTTEN AMERICA: REDISCOVERING EVENTS THAT CHANGED THE NATION, delve into the public health crises, civil rights battles, and censorship fights that transformed the United States. In 12 lectures led by historian and author Dr. Rachel Michelle Gunter, you will add a whole new slate of new characters and conflicts to your historical lexicon.Rachel Michelle Gunter is a public historian and author whose research focuses on the woman suffrage movement and its effects on the voting rights of other groups, including immigrants, servicemen, World War I veterans, Mexican Americans, and African Americans. She earned a PhD in History from Texas A&M University. Her work has been published in the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and she also contributed a chapter for the book Impeached: The Removal of Texas Governor James E. Ferguson. She also served as a consultant and cowriter for Citizens at Last, a documentary film about the history of the Texas suffrage movement.

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