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This week on C-SPAN's Lectures in History podcast, a class on women journalists in late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Iowa State University professor Tracy Luke describes the careers of some pioneers such as Nellie Bly and Dorothy Dix,

and the societal pressures they faced while trying to balance work and family.

Good morning.

Thank you for being here today.

Today's lecture is about American women journalists of the late 19th century.

This is one of my absolute favorite things to talk about,

as I'm sure you all can imagine. So I'm just going to dive right into it. The title of today's

talk is stunt reporters and sob sisters. And that's because these labels represent a new kind of job that emerged for women

at the end of the 19th century. And I want to tell you the story of how some pretty bold and remarkable women

seized the opportunities created by the circumstances of their time to carve out a public

space for themselves and to make a voice for themselves and for others when women's voices

were not welcomed or respected that much. So history is always the story of individuals responding creatively

to the conditions and circumstances in which they live.

And so to really understand how this unfolded

and how this new type of job, that being a newspaper reporter, in some of the biggest cities of the country, to understand how this came about,

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