The Women Who Took Care of Harriet Tubman (in her final years) Harriet Tubman “ill and penniless” proclaimed a headline in the New York Age during the summer of 1911. While Harriet Tubman is now an iconic figure in US history, and deservedly so, in the early years of the…

For almost five decades now, history pedagogy has emphasized the need to bring primary source documents into the history classroom. Teaching students to read these sources is sometimes a daunting task. One approach I’ve found fruitful is to visualize aspects of historical sources using different digital interfaces. …

While it is a truism that 1970s feminist activism gave rise to women’s history, whose feminist activism counts in histories is often quite limited. At our present historical moment, with myriad calls for revived activism, we are feeling the consequences of our narrow historical view. Nowhere is this clearer than…

a series of prompts designed to provoke reflection on the various relationships structured by research in digital archival environments. Adapted from my longer article Feminist Research Practices and Digital Archives in Australian Feminist Studies How can a researcher determine whether individuals who appear in a digital archival environment have consented…

follow up to “Feminist Research Practices and Digital Archives”) The Problem As someone who writes histories of the still living or recently deceased, I often find myself facing ethical dilemmas that both involve the scope of my research (digitized archival materials make it much easier to locate information about not…

Digital History and The Standard Narrative of the History of US Women’s Liberation presentation at AHA 2018 from the first chapter of my book that uses digital history to challenge the origins, key concepts and periodization of the history of women’s liberation . As Rosalyn Baxandall noted nearly two decades…

The mythology of male bonding in wartime, valorized in art and literature, also appears as a dominant trope in contemporary historical accounts. The narrative of diverse individuals forged together, a melting pot writ small, in the service of a greater good has become central to how the US conceptualizes war…

On October 15, as part of #MeToo, actor Rose McGowan tweeted an analogy between women and the ’N’ word.” Clarkisha Kent was quick to reply…

how to make a historical argument when your evidence is digital For Arguing With Digital History, a forthcoming workshop about how digital historians might engage in explicit historical argumentation, participants have been asked to answer (in two pages!) a series of questions based on our own work. (I considered this…