next to her is lara vapnek the author of "elizabeth gurley flynn: modern revolutionary". she teaches history at st. john's university. she specializes in the history of gender, labor and politics in the nineteenth and 20th century united states. previous publications include bread winners:working women and economic independence 1865-1920 as well as several articles on women's labor history, she is a distinguished lecturer for the organization of american historians. cindy lobel, a former student of mine, i want to get the message straight, is an assistant professor of history asked lehman college, at the city university of new york also on the faculty of honors college and the graduate center. cindy and a be a from tufts university and a ph.d. where she wrote a brilliant dissertation on u.s. history from the graduate center. her first book urban appetites:food and culture in nineteenth century new york was released in april of 2014 by the university of chicago press. the manuscript for urban apatite, not surprisingly won the dixon ryan prize for the best manuscript that y

next to her is lara vapnek, the author of "elizabeth gurley flynn: modern american revolutionary." she teaches history at st. johns university. she specializes in the history of gender, labor and politics in the 19th and 20th century united states. her previous publications include breadwinners working women and economic independence, 1865-1920 as well as several articles on women's labor history. she is a distinguished lecturer for the organization of american historians. cindy lobel, a former student of mine. i just want to get the nepotism straight. [laughter] cindy lobel isen an assistant professor of history at lehman college, the city university of new york. she's also on the faculties of the mccauley honors college and the program at the graduate center. cindy earned a ba from tufts university and a ph.d. where she wrote a brilliant dissertation in u.s. history from the graduate center kuny. her first book, urban appetites: food and culture in 19th century new york, was released in april 2014 by the university of chicago press. the manuscript for "urban appetites," not surpr

i'm curious to know the relationship of each woman with her father. >> certainly for elizabeth gurley flynn her father, tom flynn, was an important figure in her life, and he was a very strong socialist and actually the whole family kind of converted to socialism in 1902. and in that way i think he really influenced elizabeth gurley flynn, and he supported her. when she was just 15 or 16, he would kind of travel around with her, around new york city, where she would speak and to places like philadelphia or new jersey, and so he was often kind of accompanying her on her early talks. i think he was very proud of her, and one of the interesting things was the pride that her family took in her work, and i know he was very proud of her. but one of throwns i was able to write this book is because they saved all of these clippings of her appearances. so just rare newspaper clippings, very difficult to get from just obscure little papers, and the family took it all and saved it. all pasted into these books which is amazing. >> shirley chisolm acoward -- adored her father. she was from guyana, polic

historian carol berkin leads the discussion on the lives of catherine beecher elizabeth gurley flynn,rley chisholm and angela davis. >> i want to introduce the panelists. first wants to point out i brought copies of the book so far that are out in the series. i wanted to do this series for many many years. it was in my head. i envision exactly the kinds of books these women have produced or are producing, books that point to the lives of interesting women, some famous, some not particularly books that point to the way in which you can understand american history through the lives of women not simply through the eyes of men. you want to catch your breath? >> i am all caught up. >> okay. robyn spencer teaches courses on the black freedom movement litter areas of research include civil rights black power, urban radicali