Activism
Black Women’s Activism in Rural Arkansas
Black women’s activism was a crucial part of the self-advocacy and efficacy necessary to improve conditions in Arkansas’s rural black communities.
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Fruit of Her Fields: California Women Farmers at the Turn of the Century
By the turn of the 20th century, California women had entered the ranks of specialty crop growers by the hundreds.
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Preparing for the 2018 Rural Women’s Studies Association Conference
Preparing for the 2018 Rural Women’s Studies Association Conference The next Rural Women’s Studies Association triennial conference will be held May 17-19, 2018, at Ohio University, in Athens, Ohio, USA. In our last blog post, Cindy Prescott suggested several ways that you can help raise the visibility of rural women’s Read more
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“A Woman’s Work is Never Done”: Raising the Importance of Rural Women’s Studies
“A Woman’s Work is Never Done”: Raising the Importance of Rural Women’s Studies Cynthia Prescott, University of North Dakota At the 2012 Rural Women’s Studies Association conference in Fredericton, New Brunswick, many were asking how we raise the profile of the excellent work that our members and allies are doing Read more
Sources in Rural Women's History
Rural Women and their Things: Thoughts on the 2015 Artifacts in Agraria Symposium
Material cultural studies are necessary when telling the story of rural women’s lives.
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The YWCA: Creating a Moral Landscape on the Prairie
Prairie YWCAs were inclined to support the more conservative view of Christian salvation… However, the reality of supporting the needs of so many required pragmatic policies of action that later served as a template for larger urban counterparts after the onset of the Great Depression.
Public History
Quilting for a Cause: Rural Women’s Voluntarism in the First World War
The quilting bee continued to be a mainstay in many Canadian communities during WWI.
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History Matters: Reflections on the Historians Against Slavery Conference
To truly put history to work . . . it should also involve engaging and collaborating with change makers outside of the academy and on the ground.
Sources for Research
How the Digital Revolution is Transforming Historical Research
My current research project has been transformed by digital technologies.