Nancy Baker

@drnbaker.bsky.social

Historian, feminist, UU. My book on the long conservative women's movement in 20th-c. America is due out in 2027 from the University of Georgia Press. My other book project is on feminist legal reformers in 20th-c. Texas, particularly at mid-century.

🗃 EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE! 💙📚 My book "One Hundred Years of Fighting: The Long Conservative Women's Movement and the Equal Rights Amendment" will be published by UGA Press in April 2027. Pre-orders now available! cc: skystorians #WomensHistory #BookSky #NonFiction www.ugapress.org/978082037571...

One Hundred Years of Fighting

One Hundred Years of Fighting argues that for a century the Equal Rights Amendment has been highly contested, divisive among women, and symbolic of drastic s...

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The SHSU Civil War Consortium's 1st annual conference is June 12-13 at the Sam Houston Republic of Texas Presidential Library. The program has an impressive line-up of today's foremost Civil War scholars. Registration closes on May 15. Sign up today! #history #academia www.shsu.edu/academics/co...

Conference Home

The annual Civil War Consortium at Sam Houston State University aims to promote research and academic community engagement related to the U.S. Civil War and its era.

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Free and online: the 2nd annual Texas Digital Humanities Symposium, Sept. 9-11. This virtual conference spans three days, and each day will run from 9am-11:30am CST and 1:30pm-4pm CST. Space is limited -- sign up now. libcal.baylor.edu/calendar/wor...

Texas Digital Humanities Symposium 2025

Join Us at the Texas Digital Humanities Symposium! Date: September 9-11, 2025 Location: Virtual (Zoom) Immerse Yourself in Digital Humanities Join us in exploring digital...

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Giving a research talk tomorrow to my university's Phi Alpha Theta history honors society on the feminist legal reformer Hermine Tobolowsky, known as "the mother of the Texas Equal Rights Amendment."

Phi Alpha Theta Faculty Lecture Series, Dr. Nancy Baker presents, "Hermine Tobolowsky's Cold War Feminism, the Military Draft, and the ERA in Texas," Monday, February 10th, 2 pm in Olson Auditorium. Decorative image of Hermine Tobolowsky.

My kitten dipped her paws in her water dish and left these markings on a pad of paper... is it art? Is it a coded message? What do you think she is trying to say??? 😸

Picture of kitten's wet paw prints on a pad of paper in a mysterious pattern that could be art or could be a coded message. Picture of small calico kitten balanced on a tree branch.