Category Archives: Sources in Rural Women’s History

Seeking Recipes

Posted on February 6, 2020 by ccprescott

“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’ … Continue reading →

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Best of the Blogs: Museums of Minnesota

Posted on September 27, 2017 by ccprescott

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. Continue reading →

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Empires, Nations, and Native Women

Posted on August 30, 2017 by ccprescott

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. Continue reading →

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“Dear Miss Cushman”: The Dreams of Eva McCoy, 1874

Posted on April 12, 2017 by ccprescott

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? Continue reading →

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Home and Happenstance: How Chance Encounters in the Archive Can Become Sources of Invention

Posted on August 31, 2016 by ccprescott

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. Continue reading →

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Young Women’s Diaries as Primary Sources for Rural Women’s History

Posted on May 11, 2016 by ccprescott

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 … Continue reading →

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Rural Women and their Things: Thoughts on the 2015 Artifacts in Agraria Symposium

Posted on January 6, 2016 by ccprescott

Material cultural studies are necessary when telling the story of rural women’s lives. Continue reading →

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Quilting for a Cause: Rural Women’s Voluntarism in the First World War

Posted on December 9, 2015 by ccprescott

The quilting bee continued to be a mainstay in many Canadian communities during WWI. Continue reading →

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Read, Transcribe and Enjoy Rural Women’s Diaries Online

Posted on September 30, 2015 by ccprescott

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. … Continue reading →

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Sources in Rural Women’s History, Part V: Indigenous Women’s Sources in Entangled Encounters

Posted on September 23, 2015 by ccprescott

I have situated my research at the nexus of interactions between Dakotas and Scandinavian settler colonists. I have witnessed how their seemingly parallel lives—grounded in the land—intertwined and entangled. Continue reading →

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