Posts Tagged ‘African American women’
“Stagecoach Mary” Fields Carries the Mail
Fifty years before the Six Triple Eight Central Postal Directory Battalion made postal history, a six-foot tall, powerfully built formerly enslaved woman named “Stagecoach Mary” Fields delivered the mail in rural Montana as a Star Route Carrier for the United States Post Office.* When Mary was emancipated, she left West Virginia, where she had been…
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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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Talking About Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Shannon Frystak
Shannon Frystak, Ph.D. is a first-generation college student who went on to pursue a Masters and Ph.D. focusing predominantly on Women’s History. An award-winning writer and historian, she is Professor and Graduate Coordinator of the Department of History and Geography at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania where she has taught since 2007. Her first book,…
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