Posts Tagged ‘women’s history’
The Miniature Painter Revealed: A Q & A with Kathleen Lagone
The Miniature Painter Revealed: Amalia Kussner’s Gilded Age Pursuit of Fame and Fortune by Kathleen Lagone is another story of a woman who was famous in her own time and subsequently forgotten. No other female portrait artist had the notoriety or esteemed clientele that Amalia Kussner enjoyed. From the mid-1890s to 1910, having a Kussner…
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Talking About Women’s History: A Whole Lot of Questions and an Answer with Emily Van Duyne
I am delighted to end this year’s series of Three Questions and An Answer with a whole bunch of intelligent answers to my questions from Emily Van Duyne. Emily is an associate professor at Stockton University and a 2022 Fulbright Scholar. Her work has appeared in Literary Hub, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Harvard Review, and American…
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Talking About Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Elaine Weiss
Elaine Weiss is a journalist, public speaker and author of three works of narrative women’s history: The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote and Fruits of Victory: The Women’s Land Army of America in the Great War, and, most recently, Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools that Built the Civil Rights Movement. She…
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