Posts Tagged ‘Women’s History Month’
Telling Women’s History: Three Questions and An Answer with Stacy Cordery
Stacy Cordery has a sentence on her website that has become a touchstone for me as I poke at a couple of possible topics for my next book: “When one interesting individual intersects with larger social forces then historical biography is born.” She practices what she preaches in her own work. Cordery is the author…
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Telling Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Kim Nielsen
Dr. Kim Nielsen is Professor of Disability Studies at the University of Toledo, where she also teaches courses in History and Women’s & Gender Studies. Her scholarship explores disability, gender, and citizenship throughout U.S. history. Nielsen’s latest book is A Disability History of the United States (Beacon Press), the first analysis of disability throughout United…
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Telling Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Paula Tarnapol Whitacre
Paula Tarnapol Whitacre and I met for the simple reason that we both wrote books dealing with women who ended up in Alexandria, Virginia, in the Civil War. I wrote about nurses who served at Mansion House Hospital; Paula wrote about Julia Wilbur, an abolitionist and reformer. Paula is a freelance writer and editor, usually…
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