S3E7 Letters from School Girls to John Glen
The Remedial Herstory Podcast
English - March 13, 2023 04:00 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBHistory womens history women's history herstory history women female girls education social studies teaching Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this episode, Brooke interviews Dr. Roshanna P. Sylvester about the letters school children, and in particular young girls wrote to American astronaut, John Glen. Sylvester is an Associate Professor of Critical Media Practices and Digital Humanities at the University of Colorado Boulder. She earned a BA in History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, an MA in Russian Studies at Yale University, and a Yale PhD in History. Sylvester’s current project, Dreams in Orbit: Girls and Space-Age Cultures in Cold War America and the Soviet Union, focuses on letters from Soviet and American young people to the pioneering spacefarers Yuri Gagarin, John Glenn, and Valentina Tereshkova." To the space race we go! Let's get into this!
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Bibliography:
Sylvester, Roshanna. "Even though I am a girl" Smithsonian Magazine. December 14, 2016. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/even-though-i-am-girl-john-glenns-fan-mail-and-sexism-early-space-program-180961443/.
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