On November 9, 2010, The Root published Charles Cobb’s review of Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC. “Women are almost invisible in civil rights storytelling, and […]
Category: women’s history
Library Journal starred review for “Hands on the Freedom Plow”
Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC received a *starred* review in the October 1, 2010, issue of Library Journal. “Powerful, inspiring, and tremendously moving, the oral […]
Contesting Archives discussed in Inside Higher Ed
Today’s edition of Inside Higher Ed includes a Q&A with the editors of the new book Contesting Archives: Finding Women in the Sources. Nupur Chaudhuri, Sherry J. Katz, and Mary Elizabeth […]
Hands on the Freedom Plow now available
This week we received finished copies of Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC. The editors are participating on panels at the ASALH meeting this weekend in […]
“Beauty Shop Politics” wins ABWH award
Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women’s Activism in the Beauty Industry by Tiffany Gill was awarded the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Award for best publication from the Association of Black […]
CNN to interview Hands on the Freedom Plow contributor
“I looked down at the speedometer. It hovered at 115. My 1957 Packard hunkered down and propelled the three of us down Mississippi Interstate 55. As I glanced to the […]
“Hands on the Freedom Plow” events
Editors of the forthcoming book Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC have started arranging events to coincide with the October 2010 publication date. The first date on the current schedule […]
Looking for Madame Grandin by Mary Beth Raycraft
As someone who has lived through a successful PhD dissertation, I must admit that dusty old books and grand European libraries are welcome companions. Spending days perusing nineteenth-century French etiquette books […]
Gender, History, and the Great Recession by Lara Vapnek
As the Great Recession drags on, we have been greeted with a stream of news stories about the family stress caused by women becoming breadwinners. 4 out of 5 jobs […]
The American Prospect on diversity & architecture
Kathryn Anthony’s book Designing for Diversity: Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Architectural Profession was referenced in a recent article in the The American Prospect. “Architecture, let’s face it, has a serious […]
Thinking of Jane by Barbara Bair
I recently visited Seattle, where my twenty-something niece is a grad student, teacher, and research scientist specializing in water and climate change. I’m exceedingly proud of her, and of her […]
The New York Times on Breadwinners
The November 29, 2009, edition of The New York Times includes a review of Lara Vapnek’s new book Breadwinners: Working Women and Economic Independence, 1865-1920. Ms. Vapnek, who teaches history at […]