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.
In honor of the upcoming thirty-fifth anniversary of Joan M. Jensen’s publication of her landmark collection of primary documents,With These Hands: Women Working on the Land (1981), the Rural Women’s Studies Association sponsored a roundtable highlighting innovative uses of primary sources for studying rural women at the 2015 annual meeting of Read more
[W]e can often find more than we ever dreamed was possible about the lives and concerns of rural girls.
Scholars have found new ways to read “between the lines” of women’s diaries.
Historians of the Civil War and Reconstruction eras owe a particular debt to an often-overlooked group of record keepers: homesick women.