California's War Mothers: Race, Region, and the Commemoration of World War I

rebecca jo plant is an associate professor of history at the University of California, San Diego, and coeditor, with Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, of the electronic journal and database Women and Social Movement in the United States, 1600–2000. She is the author of Mom: The Transformation of Motherhood in Modern America (2010) and coeditor of Maternalism Reconsidered: Motherhood, Welfare, and Social Policies in the Twentieth Century (2012). Along with Frances M. Clarke, she won the 2015 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Prize and Berkshire Conference of Women Historians' Prize for best article for “‘The Crowning Insult’: Federal Segregation and the Gold Star Mother and Widow Pilgrimages of the Early 1930s” (Journal of American History). Plant and Clarke are currently completing a jointly authored study on the problem of underage enlistment during the American Civil War.