sexual harassment 
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SOURCE: Chicago Tribune
2/19/2021
Female Faculty Wrote a Brave Letter to Northwestern about Sexual Harassment, Racism Allegations from Cheerleaders.
“The idea that some of the people taking this class from me might be subjected to the very things we’re discussing, during campus-sanctioned activities,” [History Professor Kate] Masur said, “it’s jarring and disgusting.”
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SOURCE: Jezebel
10/26/2020
Pr*cks in Public: A Microhistory
by Gillian Frank
The recent controversy over a prominent writer's exposure on Zoom is part of a story of white men’s power to sexualize and control workplaces and public space through these same actions.
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SOURCE: New York Daily News
10/21/2020
Jeffrey Toobin and the M-Word: Let’s be Honest about what Makes this Scandal so Scandalous
by Jonathan Zimmerman
Jeffrey Toobin's scandal reflects the weight of the idea of the enlightenment individual and the fear that individuals freed from constraint would fall into corruption.
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SOURCE: NY Times
6/12/19
‘Reckoning’ Follows a 50-Year Road to #MeToo
A review of Linda Hirshman's Reckoning: The Epic Battle Against Sexual Abuse and Harassment.
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SOURCE: Columbia Spectator
4/11/19
A Professor Was Accused of Sexual Misconduct. Why is he Still on Campus?
Women speak up. A tenured professor is accused of sexual misconduct. Who does the University protect?
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SOURCE: Columbia Basin Herald
12-7-2018
Tenured historian, fired over sexual harassment charges, allowed to resign instead
The change came after the faculty union intervened in the case of Central Washington University professor Brian Carroll.
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SOURCE: Medium
11-28-18
Why I’m Firing Michigan State: Sexual Harassment, Online Harassment, and Utter Institutional Failure
by Joy Lisi Rankin
"This essay is about me standing up for myself and facing down the bullies.”
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SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
10-11-18
Nicole Hemmer exposes sexual harassment at the Miller Center
"I’ve experienced more harassment than anywhere else I’ve worked."
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
9-20-18
The scathing ad 1,600 black women bought to oppose Clarence Thomas
On Nov. 17, 1991, more than 1,600 African American women, outraged by the Senate’s mistreatment of Anita Hill, took out an ad in the New York Times with the headline: “African American Women in Defense of Ourselves.”
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
9-18-18
No women served on the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991
The ugly Anita Hill hearings changed that.
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SOURCE: NYT
9-17-18
Echoes of Anita Hill, but in a Different Era for Women
Now it is Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh who faces a hearing to address explosive accusations by Christine Blasey Ford that he sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers.
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SOURCE: WTSP
7-2-18
Historian sues University of South Florida, claiming sexual harassment and discrimination by fellow professor
Former Associate Professor Tamara Zwick claims that the chair of the USF Tampa history department, Fraser Ottanelli, repeatedly sexually harassed her and spread false rumors about her.
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5/27/18
You’ve Heard of Eric Schneiderman. You Should Know About Rose Schneiderman.
by Jennifer Scanlon
She’s the Schneiderman who championed women’s rights in the 20th century.
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SOURCE: NYT
5-4-18
With Emmett Till Reference, Camille Cosby Invokes Oft-Used Cultural Touchstone
“You’ve got apples and you have oranges and there’s nothing about either situation that is in alignment with the other,” said Ms. Gordon-Taylor, the head of the Mamie Till Mobley Memorial Foundation, named after Till’s mother.
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SOURCE: Baltimore Sun
4-6-18
Where does MLK fit in today's #MeToo world?
by Jonathan Zimmerman
Should we judge him by today's standards?
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4/1/18
Stanford’s All White Male History Conference
by Sasha Turner, Barbara Molony, and Sandra Dawson
A response from the Coordinating Council of Women Historians.
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3/25/18
He Told Me It was Inevitable that “He Would Have His Way with Me”
by Catherine Clinton
The stunning account of sexual harassment disclosed by the past president of the Southern Historical Association.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
3-15-18
‘Colorado College’s Own Harvey Weinstein’
Investigation documents how an early president of the college harassed and assaulted numerous women. Board strips his name from two buildings and revokes his honorary degree.
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SOURCE: UCLA
3-13-18 (accessed)
UCLA historian Gabriel Piterberg is out for sexual harassment
Students have been demanding his ouster for 2 years.
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SOURCE: American Historical Association website
2-22-18 (accessed)
AHA President Mary Beth Norton says ending sexual harassment is a high priority
by Mary Beth Norton
In a report to members she lays out the multi-pronged approach the organization is taking.
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