Author
Hirshman, Linda
Reviewer
Walls, Eric

Hirshman, Linda. The Color of Abolition: How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a Nation. Boston: Mariner Books, 2022. 352 pp. $28.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781328900241.

Reviewed by Eric Walls (Pitt Community College)
Published on Jhistory (November, 2023)
Commissioned by Zef Segal (Department of History, Philosophy, and Jewish Studies, the Open University of Israel)

On the transnational uses of oral history archives: The Bronx Italian American History Initiative 

Kathleen La Penta (Fordham University)

 

Dr. Jacqueline Reich and I are the co-principal investigators for The Bronx Italian American History Initiative (BIAHI, for short), an oral history project founded in 2016 and based at Fordham University in the Bronx. As scholars of modern Italian Studies and as practitioners of oral histories, our work converges ideas of cultural exchange that inhere in transnational approaches to modern Italy and in interpretations of oral histories. The transnational turn

 

The “Ordinary” People Behind the US Population Movement

Caitlin Fendley

 

My dissertation project began in a graduate writing seminar, where I was finally making concrete plans for what my research topic would be. I was interested in the history of reproductive health, eugenics, and sterilization in the United States, and – at least for the purposes of the seminar – needed a topic which was accessible source-wise, provided enough material for a chapter-length paper, and helped create a solid foundation for my later dissertation research. In my preliminary search, I came across primary sources

Getting the Vote in the Mountains

Kristen Dawson Blog Post

            Hi folks! Another week down, and you know what that means, another blog post. For the past couple of weeks, the focus has been primarily on newspapers, and the minutes of the annual Kentucky Equal Rights Association, but for this week I wanted to change it up a little bit. Earlier in the project, I began listening to some oral history interviews with women from Eastern Kentucky regarding their recollections of the suffrage movement and their early days of voting. They have been mentioned in a couple of blog posts, and this week I want to return to these mountain women and tell you

In this special summer episode, we take a step back from reviewing to introduce listeners to H-Law's new legal history podcast. Robert interviews H-Law's podcast producer and host Siobhan Barco and we run in full her first episode, an interview with legal scholar Mary Ziegler, author of After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate (Harvard University Press, 2015). From Siobhan's episode description:

Ziegler’s work uses the landmark American abortion rights case, Roe vs. Wade to explore litigation as a vessel for social change and the role the court plays in democracy. In addition to

Humanizing the Suffrage Movement

Kristen Dawson Blog Post

            Another week has come and gone here at the KY Woman Suffrage Project, and with that comes a new blog post. For me, this week has really been about beginning to understand the personal nature of the suffrage movement. As much as we might like to think history happens in the hallowed halls of government or the bloody battlefields of war, all too often smaller things shape it. The relationships, interactions, and emotions of human beings all come together to influence the course of events, and often are just as important as the laws and dates we are taught to remember. Though the past

Welcome to KY Woman Suffrage

Kristen Dawson Blog Post

Hi everyone! This is the inaugural post of the KY Woman Suffrage Blog so I just wanted to take some time to introduce the blog and myself. My name is Kristen Thornsberry, and I am a recent graduate of the University of Kentucky. While a student at UK, I majored in History and got my minor in Appalachian Studies. I have recently begun working with as a Fellow for the Kentucky Woman Suffrage Project and am excited to see what the future holds for this work. With this blog, I plan to post weekly updates about what I have been doing and what is going on with the Kentucky Woman Suffrage Project

Public History Reading List

Nick Timmerman Blog Post

Public History Readers

      Frisch, Michael.  A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and

      Public History (1990)

      Gardner, James and Peter LaPaglia. Public History: Essays from the Field (1999)

      Kean, Hilda and Paul Martin. The Public History Reader (2013)

      Tyrrell, Ian. Historians in Public: The Practice of American History, 1890-1970 (2005)

Public History Theory

      Abrams, Lynn. Oral History Theory (2010)

      Cohen, Daniel. Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web (2005)

      Rosenzweig, Roy. Clio Wired: The

Hand Grenade of the Week 28

David Silbey Blog Post

Hand Grenade of the Month -- September 2015

Refusing to Learn

“Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.”
Georges Santayana, The Life of Reason

Hello hand grenade fans (and those souls who dislike this forum but are drawn to it by a morbid sense of curiosity, to see what nonsense that Kuehn fellow is spewing forth this month). 

So why the famous Santayana quotation (minus its most famous

Bourbon - And A New Oral History Project

Randolph Hollingsworth (she/her) Blog Post

Bourbon barrels in the rickFor whiskey to be called bourbon it must be made with a minimum of 51 percent corn, aged in charred new oak barrels and stored at no more than 125 proof. Strict federal guidlines maintain this standard, but the distillers all have their own private recipes and traditions about storing their product.

The making of bourbon began in the 1700s with the Kentucky frontier. Farmers shipped their processed corn as whiskey in oak barrels - stamped with its port of origin, Bourbon County (one of Kentucky's original counties while still a part of Revolutionary Era Virginia) - down the Ohio and Mississippi