Beyond “I Do”: Marriage in the 20th-Century United States

Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 17
Coordinating Council for Women in History 18
Friday, January 9, 2026: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Kimball Room (Palmer House Hilton, Third Floor)
Chair:
Sarah B. Rowley, DePauw University
Papers:
“A Taste of What Married Life Is Like”: Tom Thumb Weddings and the Meaning of Mock Marriage
William Kuby, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Married Congresswomen and Masculinity in Crisis in the 1970s
Sarah B. Rowley, DePauw University
Undermining Unity: The FBI’s War on Black Marriage During the Black Freedom Movement
Traci L. Parker, University of California, Davis
Felonious Slayers: Murdered Wives and Inheritance in Midcentury America
Alison Lefkovitz, New Jersey Institute of Technology
An Uneasy Commitment: US Military Marriages as Foreign Policy
Emily Swafford, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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