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Ma Kettle Revisited
Ma Kettle is no longer the face of rural women, but her entertainment genetic legacy endures.
Ma Kettle is no longer the face of rural women, but her entertainment genetic legacy endures.
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.
Essays based on superb papers presented at the 2012 Rural Women’s Studies Association conference, which span time and place, appear along with an introduction in the Summer 2015 issue of Agricultural History.
Historians of the Civil War and Reconstruction eras owe a particular debt to an often-overlooked group of record keepers: homesick women.