Hello, and welcome to this month's resource recommendation roundup! If you have suggestions for next month, email me at jmbrabble@vt.edu.
- The History Chicks revisit the story of Pocahontas, setting straight what Disney got wrong (The History Chicks).
- Lois Ellen Frank explores how European colonization changed the diet of Native Americans (History).
- The often undiscussed history of the women’s KKK is explored by Emily Cataneo (Daily JSTOR).
- In a new episode of Ridiculous History, the effect that the 1918 epidemic had on the suffrage movement is investigated (Ridiculous History).
- In his new book Remaking the Rural South: Interracialism, Christian Socialism, and Cooperative Farming in Jim Crow Mississippi, historian Robert Hunt Ferguson studies the Delta Cooperative Farm at length. This farm—and its descendant, Providence Farm—consisted of two dozen black and white ex-sharecropping families, challenging Jim Crow segregation and plantation labor. The Journal of Southern History says about the book: “Remaking the Rural South brings an important historical case to bear on the still pressing questions of racial and economic justice in the U.S. South” (University of Georgia Press).
- Cherene Sherrard discusses her journey to learn more about Malinda Russell, the first Black woman to publish a cookbook (Atlas Obscura).
- The dark history of the visual documentation of racist violence in America is examined by historian Mary Niall Mitchell (Black Perspectives).
- In this lighthearted article, the history of the TV dinner is investigated by Kovie Biakolo (Smithsonian Magazine).
- Aaron Randle tells the history of the forgotten “Black Rosies” of World War II (History). Want to learn more about the work of Black women on the homefront?
- Recent documentary Invisible Warriors explore the pioneering role of African American women during WWII.
- Bitter Fruit: African American Women in World War II (edited by Maureen Honey) does a deep dive on this fascinating history.
- Cheryl Mullenbach uncovers how African American women’s work during World War II contributed to the war effort in Double Victory: How African American Women Broke Race and Gender Barriers to Help Win World War II.
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