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OK, I’ll Do it Myself
For the past half century, Caroline Schimmel has collected narratives of women overcoming obstacles in the wilderness. Continue reading
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Tagged Agricultural History Society, archives, collections, frontier, wilderness
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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. Continue reading
Posted in Sources in Rural Women's History
Tagged archives, history, photography, primary sources
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How the Digital Revolution is Transforming Historical Research
My current research project has been transformed by digital technologies. Continue reading
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. … Continue reading
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Tagged archives, primary sources
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Sources in Rural Women’s History, Part III: Finding the Rural Girls: Sources and Possibilities
[W]e can often find more than we ever dreamed was possible about the lives and concerns of rural girls. Continue reading
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Tagged archives, girlhood, history, primary sources
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Sources for Research: Olive “Polly” Matthews Stone, Radical Rural Sociologist
Olive “Polly” Matthews Stone (1897-1977) was a sociologist and advocate for social welfare, civil rights, and interracial relations in the South. Her life and career—with a focus on radical politics and social justice in rural societies, particularly during the 1930s—have largely been left unexplored Continue reading
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Tagged activism, archives, history, primary sources, sociology
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