Therese Boles
Therese Boles is a fourth-year history student at UCLA. She loves reading old newspapers and studying America’s Gilded Age (1865-1900). These interests converge to form her senior thesis topic: the role of newspapers at the Homestead Strike at Andrew Carnegie’s steel mill in 1892. While this strike is well studied in scholarly literature, no study has yet focused on the press—an oversight that Therese argues detracts from our understanding of the event. By recounting the role of reporters and newspapers at Homestead in 1892, comparing how the news coverage changed based on the source, and tracking how people responded to that news, Therese hopes to tell an exciting story while adding to the historiography of this famous event.
Therese Boles is a fourth-year history student at UCLA. She loves reading old newspapers and studying America’s Gilded Age (1865-1900). These interests converge to form her senior thesis topic: the role of newspapers at the Homestead Strike at Andrew Carnegie’s steel mill in 1892. While this strike is well studied in scholarly literature, no study has yet focused on the press—an oversight that Therese argues detracts from our understanding of the event. By recounting the role of reporters and newspapers at Homestead in 1892, comparing how the news coverage changed based on the source, and tracking how people responded to that news, Therese hopes to tell an exciting story while adding to the historiography of this famous event.