Posts Tagged ‘African American history’
Talking About Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Jennifer Tuttle
Jennifer S. Tuttle is the Dorothy M. Healy Professor of Literature and Health at the University of New England (UNE) in Maine, where she directs the Maine Women Writers Collection (an archive within the UNE Library) and co-founded the Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies program. She has published three books on American author Charlotte Perkins…
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Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists
Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women’s Fight for Their Rights, written by Mikki Kendall, author of Hood Feminism, and illustrated by A. D’Amico, is the perfect book to bridge the gap between Black History Month and Women’s History Month. The book starts with a diverse group of young women discussing the question…
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In which I read How the Word is Passed
I bought Clint Smith’s How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America almost as soon as it came out in 2021 after repeatedly hearing what an amazing book it was. But as I mentioned in post earlier this month, I was deep in the world of Nazis and couldn’t…
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