H-SAWH's Resource Recommendation Roundup - April 2022

Welcome to this month's Resource Recommendation Roundup! If you have suggestions for next month, feel free to email me at jmbrabble@wm.edu

• A new podcast series by American History Tellers explores the history of the fight for women’s suffrage (American History Tellers).
• Jessica Pearce Rotondi explores the history of the Famous Amos cookie and the rise and fall of its founder, Wally Amos (History).
• The complex history of Aunt Fanny’s Cabin, an anti-Black restaurant, is discussed by Hanna Raskin (Smithsonian Magazine).
• Sharon Lurye uncovers the lives of two pioneering midwives, Marie Grissot and Aimee Potens (Atlas Obscura).
• The long history of abolition in America is explored by Sarah Handley-Cousins and Averill Evans in this podcast episode (DIG History).
• Matthew Wills discusses the decades long struggle of Black farmers to find debt relief from the USDA (JSTOR Daily).
• Audrey McElhinney talks about one of the most popular cookbooks in 18^th-century America, The Compleat Housewife (Uncommonwealth).
• NPR’s Throughline discusses the controversial history of tipping in America (Throughline). Interested in learning more? Check out these sources:
  • Nina Martyris, “When Tipping Was Considered Deeply Un-American”
  • Saru Jayaraman, One Fair Wage: Ending Subminimum Pay in America
  • Rachel E. Greenspan, “’It’s the Legacy of Slavery’: Here’s the Troubling History Behind Tipping Practices in the U.S.”