Glenna matthews biography examples
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Teaching educational equity
I write to weigh in on the issue of teaching about matters of racial justice in our schools. There has been a great deal of misinformation circulating, and I’d like to offer my perspective as a professional historian of the United States.
My specialty is women’s history, though I’ve also studied and written about race relations as well. I was drawn to study women, because when I was growing up, the subject received no attention at all in our textbooks. History was the story of (white) men and their activities. Though I didn’t realize it at the time, I was giving myself a compensatory education by haunting the Laguna Beach public library when I was in high school to read biographies of women like Elizabeth I or Catherine de Medici. What a joy that, when I started a doctoral program at Stanford in 1970, a new field was being born, and I could focus on it. How empowering it was to learn about the many social movements led by women, even before we had th
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American Women's History: A lärling Companion
An encyclopedia of American women's history, this comprehensive reference book features in-depth articles on trends (e.g. birthrates, suburban growth), social movements (civil rights, feminism), ideas and concepts (domesticity, consciousness-raising), institutions (Children's Bureau, women in Congress), organizations (Girl Scouts of amerika, League of Women Voters), events (American Revolution), issues (abortion, lika Rights Amendment), key legal cases (Roe v Wade, Muller v Oregon), laws and constitutional amendments, documents and publications (Ramona, Declaration of Sentiments), ethnic and social groups (African American women, Latinas), overviews (women's health, women in music and literature), and biographies of notable American women. This Companion is a perfect supplement to The Young Oxford History of Women in the United States. Oxford's Student Companions to American History are state-of-the-art references for school an
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An encyclopedia of American women's history, this comprehensive reference book features in-depth articles on trends (e.g. birthrates, suburban growth), social movements (civil rights, feminism), ideas and concepts (domesticity, consciousness-raising), institutions (Children's Bureau, women in Congress), organizations (Girl Scouts of America, League of Women Voters), events (American Revolution), issues (abortion, Equal Rights Amendment), key legal cases (Roe v Wade, Muller v Oregon), laws and constitutional amendments, documents and publications (Ramona, Declaration of Sentiments), ethnic and social groups (African American women, Latinas), overviews (women's health, women in music and literature), and biographies of notable American women. This Companion is a perfect supplement to The Young Oxford History of Women in the United States.
Oxford's Student Companions to American History are state-of-the-art references for school and home, specifically designed and written for ages 12