“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 […]
Category: women’s history
“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 […]
Maggie Hinchey on the Cover by Lara Vapnek
Searching for illustrations for my book, Breadwinners, recapped the challenges—and rewards—of writing about working women in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Documentation of women who worked as servants, […]
Baseball Digest interviews Jennifer Ring
Jennifer Ring, author of the new book Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don’t Play Baseball, was interviewed by Baseball Digest. BBD: Why do you think Ken Burns gave women’s baseball very […]
“Sojourner Truth’s America” wins award
Margaret Washington’s new book, Sojourner Truth’s America, was one of two 2009 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Award winners. Awarded annually by the Association of Black Women Historians, the competition […]
Divas on Screen author on screen
Mia Mask, author of the new book Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film, was interviewed on New York’s CBS affiliate WCBS-TV . […]
Sojourner Truth celebrated in the U.S. Capitol
CNN reports that a memorial bust of Sojourner Truth was unveiled in the U.S. Capitol today making Truth the first African-American woman to be so honored. To learn more about her life and times, […]