A Historic Life

Friends and colleagues of Alabama historian Sarah Wiggins echoed certain refrains time and again, among them: “She did not suffer fools gladly.”

Women Also Know Washington

by Lindsay Chervinsky

The last decade has witnessed a noticeable uptick of works on Washington authored by women, with more to come in the pipeline.

Zara Steiner, Historian Who Explored World War I’s Roots, Dies at 91

Dr. Steiner dug into the letters and other papers of civil servants and interviewed prominent and not-so-prominent historical players to flesh out the picture of how momentous events were shaped.

A female historian wrote a book. Two male historians went on NPR to talk about it. They never mentioned her name. It’s Sarah Milov.

They have tenure. She does not.

Alice Kessler-Harris: Becoming a Feminist, Becoming a Labor Historian

by Lara Vapnek

For the past forty years, Alice Kessler-Harris has been on the vanguard of labor history and of women’s and gender history.

Women historians smashed the glass ceiling in Australia

Compared to both the male-dominated STEM disciplines, and other social sciences like philosophy and political science, Australian history has been remarkably feminised.