Nancy C. Unger is an American history professor and author. She chairs the history department at

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. She has written books on American women in the environmental movement, Bob La Follette, and Belle La Follette. She was born in Seattle and graduated from

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in 1978. She received her masters and Ph.D. from the

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. She has appeared on

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several times. She discussed Bob La Follette on PBS North Carolina. Unger suggested Belle La Follette appear on a newly designed $10 bill. She supports a California law requiring the teaching of

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history in public schools.

Selected works

*''Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer'' *''Belle La Follette: Progressive Era Reformer'' *''Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History'' *''A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era'', co-editor with Christopher McKnight Nichols

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* * American women historians Historians from California Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century American women writers 21st-century American historians Santa Clara University faculty Gonzaga University alumni University of Southern California alumni {{US-historian-stub