Nancy Woloch (born 1940) is an American historian. Her book ''A Class by Herself: Protective Laws for Women Workers, 1890s-1990s'' won the 2016

Philip Taft Labor History Book Award The Philip Taft Labor History Book Award is sponsored by the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations in cooperation with the Labor and Working-Class History Association for books relating to labor history of the United States. L ...

and the William G. Bowen Award for the Outstanding Book on Labor and Public Policy. Woloch is an

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Barnard College Barnard College of Columbia University is a private women's liberal arts college in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1889 by a group of women led by young student activist Annie Nathan Meyer, who petitioned Columbia ...

and

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

, where she specialises in women's history and the history of education. Woloch has a BA from

Wellesley College Wellesley College is a private women's liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1870 by Henry and Pauline Durant as a female seminary, it is a member of the original Seven Sisters Colleges, an unofficial g ...

, an MA from Columbia University and a PhD from

Indiana University Indiana University (IU) is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Indiana. Campuses Indiana University has two core campuses, five regional campuses, and two regional centers under the administration of IUPUI. *Indiana Universit ...

. In 2016 ''

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'' chose Woloch as one of 25 historians asked to nominate a "Moment that changed America", and she contributed "FDR Signs the

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(June 25, 1938)".

Selected publications

*''A Class by Herself: Protective Laws for Women Workers, 1890s-1990s'' (2015, Princeton UP, ) *''Women and the American Experience'' (Knopf, 1984; 5th ed. McGaw Hill, 2011 ) *''The American Century: A History of the United States Since the 1890s'', with Walter La Feber and Richard Polenberg (7th ed., 2013, ) *''Early American Women: A Documentary History, 1600-1900'' (2nd ed., 1997, ) *''Muller v. Oregon: A Brief History with Documents'' (1996, Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, )

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* 1940 births Living people American women historians Wellesley College alumni Columbia University alumni Indiana University alumni 21st-century American historians American historians of education Women's historians 21st-century American women writers Historians from Indiana {{US-historian-stub