Flags, fireworks, and forgotten fiction… it’s the Season 2 premiere of The Gibson Girl Review! Amy and Jacinta celebrate the Fourth of July with an all new review of America’s Daughter by Rena I. Halsey (1918), a World War I young adult novel that asks some challenging yet relevant questions about what it means to be American. Plus they share exciting details about the all new season!
Learn more about the National Society Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century founded by Rena Halsey and Henrietta Halsey!
Topics and shout-outs in this episode include: the Gibson Girl, the Gibson Man, Charles Dana Gibson, the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, Independence Day, patriotism, American history, Pilgrims, Puritans, New England, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Beverly Hills 90210, The CW, World War I, young adult fiction, Plymouth Rock, The Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century, Harlan P. Halsey, Henrietta Halsey, Pollyanna, The Glad Game, the Castle Trot, West Point, Boy Scouts, and old maids.
