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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 66–67.
Published: 01 March 2010
... Abstract At the American Historical Association's 2010 meeting in San Diego, CA, historians honored the multifaceted life and work of Blanche Wiesen Cook. Jane S. De Hart examines the circumstances and choices that shaped Cook and the generation of young women historians who came of age as young...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 307–329.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Anene Ejikeme Abstract This essay argues that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s short story “Headstrong Historian” offers a woman’s perspective on the Igbo encounter with European colonialism, a history made famous by Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart who told the story from a male perspective...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 123–141.
Published: 01 September 2014
... Abstract On March 8, 2013, renowned black feminists Barbara Smith and Beverly Guy-Sheftall were brought together on the same panel, moderated by historian Paula Giddings, in a compelling conversation that closed out the first day of the Harriet Tubman: A Legacy of Resistance Symposium...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 149–201.
Published: 01 April 2020
... national campaign to end prostitution as a case study to investigate how gender and patriarchy affect the ways social change is operationalized. Interested in the relationship between social and cultural change, following the tradition of feminist historians, this article utilizes the oral histories of two...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 68–73.
Published: 01 March 2010
... eight years earlier and well aware that its cancellation could bankrupt the organization, responded creatively. The Program Committee put together a stellar mini-conference on historical perspectives on same-sex marriage. This session, sponsored by the Committee on Women Historians, leads off this mini...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 86–95.
Published: 01 March 2010
... Johns Hopkins and the surrounding city of Baltimore were racially segregated, members of the History Department had considerably more avant garde views, and maintained a bail fund for student protesters from Hopkins and Morgan State. Prominent among these historians were Owen Lattimore, Charles Barker...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 102–105.
Published: 01 March 2010
..., and I were the founders of the Fund for Open Information and Accountability (FOIA, Inc and when William Appleman Williams became president of the OAH, he created the historians' committee for Freedom oflnformation and Access, which Bill and I co-chaired. And here today is Dr. Ruth Heifitz, Jerry's...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 76–80.
Published: 01 March 2010
... herself as an activist, journalist, and historian-in that order (Cook 2009). An expansive feminist, her scholarship and activism encompass struggles for racial equality, economic justice, and world peace. Deeply influenced by the 1970s women's liberation movement, Blanche turned her full attention...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 December 2016
... Frances DavisCenter for Education, Research, and Culture. She is the author of four books including RaceBraven:ewandselectewd orks;Notesfrom a ColoredGirl:TheCivilWarPocket DiariesofEmilieFrancesDavis,which receivedboth the 2015 Darlene Clark Hine BookAwardfrom the Organization of American Historians...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 225–227.
Published: 01 September 2014
...-making, social media, and digital history. Kate Clifford Larson, PhD.,is an historian, leading Harriet Tubman scholar, and the author ofBoundForthePromisedLand:HarrietTubman, PortraitofanAmericanHero(Ballantine/One World, 2004). She specializes in 19thand 20th century U.S.Women's and African American...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 81–85.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Marcia M. Gallo Copyright © 2010 by Smith College 2010 MARCIA M. GALLO "OutingHistory:" BlanchWe iesenCook Historicallytheromancoeftheclosetandtheperspectivoefthefortressbecame necessarybarricadesa9ainstbi9otryandpain.(Cook1994, 52) Historian, journalist, activist, and Distinguished Professor...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): v–vii.
Published: 01 March 2010
.... One of the paradigm-changers of our time is Blanche Wiesen Cook, biographer of Eleanor Roosevelt, and a groundbreaking historian and social-justice activist who has had a considerable impact on the contemporary peace, LGBT,criminal justice, and civil rights movements. Her achievements were recognized...
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 133–160.
Published: 01 September 2005
... into a feminist diasporic space of agency and potentiality. 2 Yan's novel is a fictional account of two Chinese women, one living in the late twentieth century, the other situated in the late nineteenth century. The contemporary woman is an unnamed writer and feminist historian who wants to narrate the missing...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 149–171.
Published: 01 March 2014
... collection includes newspaper articles and the many newspaper notices regarding runaway slaves. Although historians have done extensive work on slave narratives, they do not form a significant enough portion of 154 MERIDIANS 12:1 the National Archive to merit mention in its overall description...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 114–139.
Published: 01 September 2009
... of slavery in a way. And I do invent a certain amount, you have to. Historians do too" (Raiskin 1993, 65). Cliff, who holds a doctorate in history, speaks to the important role that literary works play in gaining access to the chronically silenced histories of African American and African Caribbean people...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 146–168.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of honor and innocence. 8 And yet, the concept of rape was not absent from the Dutch imagination at all. As the historian Amanda Pipkin ( 2013 : 3) describes, “rape was fundamental to the cultural construction of Dutch national identity during the first half of the seventeenth century” (emphasis added...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 163–184.
Published: 01 March 2002
..., much of the history of Black visual artists is linked for numerous political, sociocultural, and economic reasons to the social politics of their communities. Art historians suggest that as a group Black artists have maintained strong ties to Black activist institutions including. churches, racial...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 245–268.
Published: 01 December 2016
... as part of ongoing justice efforts on the part of black feminists and activists. In Notes,Whitehead delineates a narrative that grapples with the complexity of a free black woman's lived experience during the Civil 250 MERIDIANS 15: I War. Students have the opportunity to see how a historian takes...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 219–224.
Published: 01 September 2014
... and feasibility of establishing a National Park in honor of Harriet Tubman. The study took more than eight years to complete-one of the longest resource studies ever conducted by the National Park Service. With the help of historians, researchers, and local supporters in New York,Maryland, and from across...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 96–101.
Published: 01 March 2010
... work with the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association-as its representative to the State Department's Historical Advisory Committee-and of course with the Fund for Open Information and Accountability in support of the Freedom of Information Act and the Sunshine Law...
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