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Leslie Tentler

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Leslie Woodcock Tentler is Professor of History at the Catholic University of America, a position she has held since 1998. Woodcock is an expert on twentieth-century US, Catholic history. From 1973-98 she taught history at the University of Michigan-Dearborn; she also spent two semesters as a visiting professor of history at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Tentler is the author of Catholics and Contraception: An American History (2004), Seasons of Grace: A History of the Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit (1990), and Wage-Earning Women: Industrial Employment and Family Life in the United States, 1900-1930 (1979), as well as numerous articles and panel presentations. She earned her AB and PhD at the University of Michigan.
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