Trilogies, trade presses, and books in print: part III of my interview with Mary Beth Norton

September 18, 2012May 6, 2015 / Historiann / 6 Comments

Today’s post is the final installment of my three-part interview with Mary Beth Norton, whose career will be celebrated at Liberty’s Sons and Daughters, a conference in her honor in Ithaca, New York September 28 and 29. (If you’ve missed part I and part II, get yourself caught up and then read on.) Here, we … Continue reading Trilogies, trade presses, and books in print: part III of my interview with Mary Beth Norton

Feminist mentors and feminist activism: part II of my interview with Mary Beth Norton

September 17, 2012 / Historiann / 23 Comments

Today’s post is part two of a three-part interview with Mary Beth Norton. If you missed yesterday’s post, catch it here and get with the program! At the end of yesterday’s interview, Norton talked about how she transformed herself from a historian of loyalists in the American Revolution into a women’s historian. She spoke of … Continue reading Feminist mentors and feminist activism: part II of my interview with Mary Beth Norton

Mary Beth Norton: A Founding Mother tells all.

September 16, 2012May 6, 2015 / Historiann / 12 Comments

Today and for the next two posts, Historiann is thrilled to present an interview with the distinguished senior scholar and women’s history great Mary Beth Norton. Norton is the Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History and a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University. Even those of you who have never met her … Continue reading Mary Beth Norton: A Founding Mother tells all.

Liberty’s Daughers and Sons: Celebrating the Legacy of Mary Beth Norton

May 14, 2012May 6, 2015 / Historiann / 6 Comments

The conference planned in honor of Mary Beth Norton’s career now has a program posted online, as well as new information about accomodations for the big weekend, September 28 and 29, 2012. This could be your chance to meet Tenured Radical, who’s chairing the first panel on Friday morning the 28th! Alas, I will not … Continue reading Liberty’s Daughers and Sons: Celebrating the Legacy of Mary Beth Norton

Mary Maples Dunn, 1931-2017

March 22, 2017March 25, 2017 / Historiann / 13 Comments

UPDATED BELOW WITH MEMORIAL SERVICE INFORMATION As many in the early American community learned Monday morning, Mary Maples Dunn died Sunday in North Carolina. She was a longtime professor and dean at Bryn Mawr College who then served as president of Smith College, director of the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe, president of Radcliffe, and the … Continue reading Mary Maples Dunn, 1931-2017

#StanfordSausageFest: “A return to history’s dark age as a gentlemen’s protection society?” A response from the Coordinating Council of Women Historians

April 2, 2018April 3, 2018 / Historiann / 17 Comments

I’ve been asked by the authors of this statement by the Coordinating Council for Women Historians at the American Historical Association to republish their response to the #StanfordSausageFest published yesterday at History News Network. The authors link the specter of a return to “history’s dark age as a gentlemen’s protection society” to recent consciousness-raising efforts to … Continue reading #StanfordSausageFest: “A return to history’s dark age as a gentlemen’s protection society?” A response from the Coordinating Council of Women Historians

Writers, readers, publishers, and money

July 11, 2015July 11, 2015 / Historiann / 36 Comments

Liz Covart has a post on her blog called “How to Write for Your Readers,” which is effectively a post about “How to Write for Readers Beyond Your Colleagues and their Students.” She points out that journalists are very effective at writing history books that people actually buy and read. They’re eating our lunches! History … Continue reading Writers, readers, publishers, and money

American Revolution scholarship and the spirit of 1976

March 31, 2015May 6, 2015 / Historiann / 27 Comments

Michael D. Hattem has a thoughtful review on the stagnation of scholarship on the American Revolution over at the Junto. He writes about the ways in which intellectual histories of the coming of the Revolution were preeminent in the 1960s, and then dominance of social histories of the effects of the Revolution in the 1970s … Continue reading American Revolution scholarship and the spirit of 1976

Pauline Maier, 1938-2013

October 28, 2013May 7, 2015 / Historiann / 3 Comments

Pauline Maier, the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of History at MIT, died August 12 this year at age 75, a fact that this blog failed to note at the time. (I can’t remember why, except to note that an extended family member of mine like Maier also died of a recently diagnosed lung cancer … Continue reading Pauline Maier, 1938-2013

A Major Problem you wish you had, or, Historiann-thologized, again!

August 23, 2013May 7, 2015 / Historiann / 19 Comments

This is what’s called a super-slow rollout, folks: a chapter from my book Abraham in Arms: War and Gender in Colonial New England (2007) has been excerpted for inclusion in the latest edition of Major Problems in American Women’s History, 5th edition (Cengage Learning, 2013), edited by Sharon Block, Ruth M. Alexander, and Mary Beth … Continue reading A Major Problem you wish you had, or, Historiann-thologized, again!

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