Books

Jodi Vandenberg-Daves, Leading With Courage: A Career-Long Guide for Idealistic Women. Purchasing Options

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Jodi Vandenberg-Daves, Modern Motherhood: An American History (Rutgers University Press, 2014) Purchase at Barnes and Noble 

 

Jodi Vandenberg-Daves, Making History: A Guide to Historical Research through the National History Day Program (ABC-Clio, 2006) Purchase

 

Jodi Vandenberg-Daves, Poems in the Mother Tongue (lulu.com, 2019) Purchase​

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Academic Articles  

“Twentieth-Century Motherhood:  Promises, Pitfalls, and Continuing Legacies,” The American Historian, 2016.

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"Finding Maternal Histories,” Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (Spring/Summer 2014), introductory article for special issue:  “Mothers and History.”

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“Medicine, Modernity, and the Maternal Body” Nursing Clio (May, 8, 2014) 

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“Mama Bear as Micromanager:  The Evolution of Cultural Ideals of Motherhood in the Berenstain Bears Book Series, 1960-2000,” Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering 5:1 (Spring 2003):  135-147.

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“’A Look at the Total Knowledge of the World’:  The University of Minnesota, the Land-Grant Tradition, and the Politics of Public Higher Education, 1950-1990,” History of Education 32: 1 (Spring 2003):  57-79.

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“’There’s Got to be More Out There’:  White Working-Class Women, College, and the Better Life, 1950-1985,” International Labor and Working-Class History 62 (Fall 2002):  99-120.

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“Teaching Motherhood in History:  The Challenge of Private Experience in a Tradition of Public Narrative,” Women’s Studies Quarterly 39:3/4 (Fall/Winter 2002):  234-255.

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“The Manly Pursuit of a Partnership Between the Sexes:  The Debate Over Women and Girls in the YMCA, 1914-1933.” The Journal of American History 78 (March 1992):  1324-1346.

“Mama Bear as Micromanager:  The Evolution of Cultural Ideals of Motherhood in the Berenstain Bears Book Series, 1960-2000,” reprinted in a “best of journal” book,  Mother Matters: Motherhood as Discourse and Practice, Andrea O’Reilley, ed., Toronto:  Association for Research on Mothering, 2004.

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“Native Americans and the Federal Government:  A Guide to Sources,” with Louise Edwards-Simpson, in National History Day 2003:  Rights and Responsibilities in History, Bea Hardy and Cathy Gorn, eds., College Park, MD:  National History Day, Inc., 2002.

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 “A Research Roadmap for Your History Day Topic,” in National History Day 2002:  Revolution, Reaction, Reform in History, Bea Hardy and Cathy Gorn, eds.  College Park, MD:  National History Day, Inc., 2001.

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National History Day 1999:  Science, Technology, Invention in History.  Jodi Vandenberg-Daves and Cathy Gorn, eds., College Park, MD:  National History Day, Inc., 1998.

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National History Day 1998:  Migration in History.  Edited by Jodi Vandenberg-Daves and Cathy Gorn. College Park, MD:  National History Day, Inc., 1997.

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Peer Reviewer for Academic Journals

• The Journal of American History (2020/2021)

• Feminist Encounters:  A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics (2019)

• The American Historical Review (2018)

• Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (2019)

• Minnesota History (2016)

• The Children’s Association Quarterly​ (2015)