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Rebecca Brenner Graham

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Rebecca Brenner Graham is author of Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins’s Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany (Kensington, 2025).

Rebecca is a postdoctoral research associate at Brown University. Previously, she taught at the Madeira School and American University.

She has a PhD in history and MA in public history from American University and a BA in history and philosophy from Mount Holyoke College. In 2023, she was awarded a Cokie Roberts Fellowship from the National Archives Foundation and a Rubenstein Center Research Fellowship from the White House Historical Association.

Her writing has been published in the Washington Post, Time, Slate, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere.

Dec. 23, 2024

Frances Perkins

On March 4, 1933, Frances Perkins was sworn in as the 4th Secretary of Labor. It was the first time in United States history that a woman served in the Cabinet, only 13 years after the ratification of the 19th Amendment gave…