About Jeannette Cockroft

I am an associate professor of history and political science at Schreiner University, a small liberal arts school in South Texas. My research interests deal with American women's political activity in the mid-20th century and especially dealing with the career of US Senator Margaret Chase Smith. I am also incredibly interested in China-I have a BA in Chinese language and culture and did a Fulbright in China in 2016.

Jeannette Cockroft is an associate professor of history and political science at Schreiner University.

NBN Episodes hosted by Jeannette:

Eve Golden, "Strictly Dynamite: The Sensational Life of Lupe Velez" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)

April 17, 2024

Strictly Dynamite

Eve Golden

Before Salma Hayek, Eva Longoria, and Penelope Cruz, there was Lupe Velez―one of the first Latin-American stars to sweep past the xenophobia of old Ho…

Amy Absher, "Fritzie: The Invented Life and Violent Murder of a Flapper" (U Oklahoma Press, 2023)

March 21, 2024

Fritzie

Amy Absher

One January day in 1923, a young boy came across the dead body of a twenty-year-old woman on a San Diego beach. When the police arrived on the scene, …

Caroline J. Smith, "Season to Taste: Rewriting Kitchen Space in Contemporary Women's Food Memoirs" (U Mississippi Press, 2023)

December 14, 2023

Season to Taste

Caroline J. Smith

Between 2000 and 2010, many contemporary US-American women writers were returning to the private space of the kitchen, writing about their experiences…

Shelley Fraser Mickle, "White House Wild Child: How Alice Roosevelt Broke All the Rules and Won the Heart of America" (Imagine, 2023)

November 11, 2023

White House Wild Child

Shelley Fraser Mickle

“I can do one of two things, I can be President of the United States or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.”—Theodore Roosevelt During …

Beverley Chalmers, "Child Sex Abuse: Power, Profit, Perversion" (Grosvenor House, 2022)

September 18, 2023

Child Sex Abuse

Beverley Chalmers
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Children of all ages are abused in every country in the world, by members of every society, culture, religion, and socio-economic class. About 120 m…

Sharon Thompson, "Quiet Revolutionaries: The Married Women's Association and Family Law" (Hart Publishing, 2022)

August 6, 2023

Quiet Revolutionaries

Sharon Thompson

This book tells the untold story of the Married Women's Association. Unlike more conventional histories of family law, which focus on legal actors, it…

Alicia Gutierrez-Romine, "From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)

May 21, 2023

From Back Alley to the Border

Alicia Gutierrez-Romine

In From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969 (U Nebraska Press, 2020), Alicia Gutierrez-Romine examines the history of…

Andrea Friederici Ross, "Edith: The Rogue Rockefeller McCormick" (Southern Illinois UP, 2020)

March 27, 2023

Edith

Andrea Friederici Ross

Young Edith and her siblings had access to the best educators in the world, but the girls were not taught how to handle the family money; that respons…

Beverley Chalmers, "Betrayed: Child Sex Abuse in the Holocaust" (Grosvenor House, 2020)

December 15, 2022

Betrayed

Beverley Chalmers

Beverley Chalmers's book Betrayed: Child Sex Abuse in the Holocaust (Grosvenor House, 2020) exposes a taboo aspect of Holocaust history; the sexual ab…

Beverley Chalmers, "Birth, Sex and Abuse: Women's Voices Under Nazi Rule" (Grosvenor House, 2015)

July 15, 2022

Birth, Sex and Abuse

Beverley Chalmers

Birth, Sex and Abuse: Women's Voices Under Nazi Rule (Grosvenor House, 2015) is a fascinating and gripping examination of birth, sex and abuse during …

Jason D. Spraitz and Kendra N. Bowen, "Institutional Sexual Abuse in the #metoo Era" (Southern Illinois UP, 2021)

July 1, 2022

Institutional Sexual Abuse in the #metoo Era

Jason D. Spraitz and Kendra N. Bowen

In Institutional Sexual Abuse in the #metoo Era (Southern Illinois UP, 2021), editors Jason D. Spraitz and Kendra N. Bowen bring together the work of…

Jeanne Baker Guy, "You'll Never Find Us: A Memoir" (She Writes Press, 2021)

May 20, 2022

You'll Never Find Us

Jeanne Baker Guy

In 1977, Jeanne’s German nationalist ex-husband, Klaus, tells her he’s gotten a new job and wants to take their three-year-old daughter and six-year-o…

Michelle Christine Smith, "Utopian Genderscapes: Rhetorics of Women's Work in the Early Industrial Age" (Southern Illinois UP, 2021)

February 21, 2022

Utopian Genderscapes

Michelle Christine Smith

Utopian Genderscapes: Rhetorics of Women's Work in the Early Industrial Age (Southern Illinois UP, 2021) focuses on three prominent yet understudied i…