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Introduction

Dr. Andrea Radke Women's Oral History Project

Collection Processed by Kurt Hunsaker

Register Created by Kurt Hunsaker

Date: February 2, 2005

Physical Description: .5 linear ft.

Biographical Sketch of / Agency History

Dr. Andrea Radke was born on July 17, 1971, in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, but spent her childhood in Savanna, Illinois. She earned her bachelors degree in history education and Native American Studies from Brigham Young University in 1992 and then went on to earn a masters degree in U.S. History with an emphasis on the history of the American West in 1995. Dr. Radke then took time out of her studies to serve a full-time mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Curitiba, Brazil. Upon her return, she attended the University of Nebraska where she earned a doctorate degree in U.S. history with emphases on the American West, Women’s History and social history from 1870-1920. Dr. Radke has had various works published on a wide variety of subjects including articles on women schoolteachers, rural women homesteaders in the Great Plains, perceptions of Mormon women, and she is currently awaiting the forthcoming of her book which is being published by the University of Nebraska Press on women college students at land-grant universities. Dr. Radke is a member of the Coalition of Western Women Historians, Mormon History Association and Western History Association. Outside of the academic world, Dr. Radke enjoys music, singing, theater, art, long-distance running, and has a growing interest in fly-fishing.

Scope and Content

The interviews primarily focus on topics in Women's History.

The transcripts are arranged alphabetically by the last name of the person interviewed, followed by the topic that each interview covers.

Each transcription is filed with a release form and an interview record that contains information on the person conducting the interview, the person being interviewed, and the subject covered in the interview.

Inventory

Box 1
FD 1 Alvord, Marjorie
FD 2 Arnold, Margaret
FD 3 Ballantyne, Gloria
FD 4 Bitter, Florence Evada
FD 5 Bowman, Florence
FD 6 Christiansen, Cindi
FD 7 Clark, LaRae
FD 8 Condie, Mardi
FD 9 Dinsdale, DeAnna
FD 10 Edwardson, Blanche
FD 11 Estrada, June
FD 12 Hale, Alice
FD 13 Hamblin, Elva
FD 14 Janson, Liselotte
FD 15 Latham, Louise M.
FD 16 Lindstrom, Loraine P.
FD 17 Lowder, Darlene
FD 18 Matthews, Betsy
FD 19 Meyers, Deanna
FD 20 Mower, Tedi Jeen
FD 21 Olsen, Doris A.
FD 22 Parsons, Sherry
FD 23 Place, Marjorie L.
FD 24 Rabatin, Mary Jane
FD 25 Ricks, Beverly
FD 26 Scott, Yvonne Sant Larsen
FD 27 Smith, Gen
FD 28 Smith, Nadeen
FD 29 Vance, Ada Jean
FD 30 Walther, Beryl
FD 31 Widmer, Pat
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