Portrait of Dr. Ruby Oram

Dr. Ruby Oram

  • Asst Professor of Practice at History, College of Liberal Arts

Scholarly and Creative Works

2025

  • Oram, R. G. (2025). Home Work: Gender, Child Labor, and Education for Girls in Urban America, 1870-1930. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Retrieved from https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo255390838.html

2023

  • Oram, R. G. (2023, January). The New Revisionists: Recent Histories of Education, Inequality, and Urban Schooling. Journal of Urban History. https://doi.org/0096-1442

2022

  • Myers, T. (2022). The Hayden Springs Freedom Colony Project. In R. G. Oram (Ed.), Hayden Springs Historical Investigations: A Post-Emancipation Freedmen Community in Northeastern Travis County, 1870-1928. Travis County Historical Commission. Retrieved from https://traviscountyarchives.starter1ua.preservica.com/uncategorized/io_425c062b-5320-4773-85ae-54a88495cd0b
  • Oram, R. G., & Mims, M. (2022). National Register of Historic Places Registration: Chicago Vocational School.
  • Oram, R. G. (2022). “A School Built Around the Girl”: Finding Girlhood to Diversify Chicago’s Built Environment. In A Girl Can Do: Recognizing and Representing Girlhood (pp. 159–174). Vernon Press.

2021

  • Oram, R. G. (2021). “A Superior Kind of Working Woman”: The Contested Meaning of Vocational Education for Girls in Progressive-Era Chicago. The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 392–410. https://doi.org/10.1017/S153778142100013X

2019

  • Oram, R. G. (2019, April). Review of “Teacher Strike! Public Education and the Making of a New American Political Order” by Jon Shelton. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography.

2017

  • Oram, R. G. (2017). National Register of Historic Places Registration: Lucy Flower Technical High School for Girls. United States Department of Interior, National Park Service.