Women historians

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• SOURCE: Tuscaloosa (AL) News
  4/19/2020
  

  A Historic Life

  Friends and colleagues of Alabama historian Sarah Wiggins echoed certain refrains time and again, among them: “She did not suffer fools gladly.”

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• SOURCE: Uncommon Sense
  3/26/2020
  

  Women Also Know Washington

  by Lindsay Chervinsky

  The last decade has witnessed a noticeable uptick of works on Washington authored by women, with more to come in the pipeline.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/6/2020
  

  Zara Steiner, Historian Who Explored World War I’s Roots, Dies at 91

  Dr. Steiner dug into the letters and other papers of civil servants and interviewed prominent and not-so-prominent historical players to flesh out the picture of how momentous events were shaped.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/14/19
  

  A female historian wrote a book. Two male historians went on NPR to talk about it. They never mentioned her name. It’s Sarah Milov.

  They have tenure. She does not.

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• SOURCE: Labor and Working Class History Association
  3/20/19
  

  Alice Kessler-Harris: Becoming a Feminist, Becoming a Labor Historian

  by Lara Vapnek

  For the past forty years, Alice Kessler-Harris has been on the vanguard of labor history and of women’s and gender history.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10-18-16
  

  Women historians smashed the glass ceiling in Australia

  Compared to both the male-dominated STEM disciplines, and other social sciences like philosophy and political science, Australian history has been remarkably feminised.