Sharon Hartman Strom, Narragansett, Rhode Island, is professor of history at the University of Rhode Island. She is the author of Political Woman: Florence Luscomb and the Legacy of Radical Reform and Beyond the Typewriter: Gender, Class, and the Origins of Modern American Office Work.
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