Rebecca Brenner Graham

Rebecca Brenner Graham is a PhD candidate in history at American University in Washington, DC. She earned her masters with a concentration in public history from American University, and she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Mount Holyoke College with majors in history (honors) and philosophy. Rebecca has published in The Washington Post, Public Seminar, and Jewish Women's Archive, and she is a monthly blogger for US Intellectual History (USIH).

Postcards

A Postcard From Washington, D.C.

By Rebecca Brenner Graham | October 7, 2019

Seeing Railway Mail Service badges makes the postal carriers and clerks that I read about in other archives seem more real.

Features

No Refuge

By Rebecca Brenner Graham | August 23, 2019

When Congress gave the Secretary of Labor discretion over any immigrant “likely to become a public charge,” they weren’t expecting someone like Frances Perkins.