{"id":138,"date":"2013-02-08T18:44:24","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T18:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/womenshistory\/?page_id=138"},"modified":"2013-02-13T19:49:27","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T19:49:27","slug":"biographies-by-time-period","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/womenshistory\/women-in-akron-history\/biographies-by-time-period\/","title":{"rendered":"Biographies by Time Period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/womenshistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/874\/2013\/02\/bio_time.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-142\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/womenshistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/874\/2013\/02\/bio_time.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"208\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Women have always been involved in the history of the city of Akron, Ohio. From its first days in the antebellum period (1825-1860) through the Civil War (1861-1865) and Reconstruction and the Gilded Age (1866-1899), Akron has relied on women to bring important innovations and services to the city. Those contributions continued in the 20th century in the Progressive Period, the &#8220;Roaring Twenties,&#8221; the Depression, World War II and the Modern times (1950-2000).<\/p>\n<p>The women profiled on this site made important contributions to the city of Akron, Ohio through the jobs they held, the businesses they ran or the volunteer work they did.<\/p>\n<p>Browse the &#8220;Categories&#8221; on the menu to the right to view the profiles<\/p>\n<p>Biographical essays are based on primary and secondary sources. For a bibliography, click here. For information about the writers\/researchers, click here.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small\">Photo courtesy of The University of Akron Archives.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women have always been involved in the history of the city of Akron, Ohio. From its first days in the antebellum period (1825-1860) through the Civil War (1861-1865) and Reconstruction and the Gilded Age (1866-1899), Akron has relied on women to bring important innovations and services to the city. Those contributions continued in the 20th &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/womenshistory\/women-in-akron-history\/biographies-by-time-period\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Biographies by Time Period&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1420,"featured_media":0,"parent":129,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"sidebar-page.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-138","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/womenshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/womenshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/womenshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/womenshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1420"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/womenshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/womenshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/womenshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/138\/revisions\/457"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/womenshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/womenshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}