Public History
Explore the JANAL Archive
The Kerala Museum introduces a vibrant new online archive! Learn how to use and contribute to its resources.
Food Studies
Seeking Recipes
“Kitchen Table Talk to Global Forum” is the topic of next year’s triennial conference, a theme that inspired us to compile a cookbook featuring essays and recipes reflecting sociocultural aspects of food and its production, and samples of our members’ culinary heritage (The Digital Press at the University of North Read more
Sources for Research
Best of the Blogs: Museums of Minnesota
Many valuable collections remain undiscovered by researchers because they are held by county or local museums whose small staff and budget limit their ability to publicize and provide access to their holdings.
Cultural Identity
Empires, Nations, and Native Women
Anne Hyde gives us a sweeping yet intimate narrative of the worlds that Euro-American traders and Native peoples built in the early-nineteenth-century West. It should also serve as a call to arms.
Sources in Rural Women's History
“Dear Miss Cushman”: The Dreams of Eva McCoy, 1874
But was Eva McCoy exactly as she appeared? Was her careful appeal actually a careful manipulation of sympathy or did it conceal an even sadder truth?
Sources in Rural Women's History
Home and Happenstance: How Chance Encounters in the Archive Can Become Sources of Invention
I didn’t know it then, but my research trajectory changed that day in 2012 when I happened upon Collier’s photos of my family.
Sources in Rural Women's History
Young Women’s Diaries as Primary Sources for Rural Women’s History
Young Women’s Diaries as Primary Sources for Rural Women’s History Rachel Kleinschmidt My name is Rachel Kleinschmidt and I have been a member of the Rural Women’s Studies Association (RWSA) since 2009. My work has focused on unmarried women in Midwestern agriculture throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. For 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.
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.
Sources for Research
Read, Transcribe and Enjoy Rural Women’s Diaries Online
Read, Transcribe and Enjoy Rural Women’s Diaries Online https://ruraldiaries.lib.uoguelph.ca/ Catharine Anne Wilson Have you ever wanted to read someone’s diary? Now you can. Nothing brings you closer to rural women’s daily life in the past than reading an old diary. The Rural Diary Archive is available online beginning 24 September Read more