Ultimately a historian has to put together a cohesive work.
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Anand Thakur
Ultimately a historian has to put together a cohesive work.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERThat makes history so appealing and so central to what I am trying to do.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERI have to throw in on a personal note that I didn’t like history when I was in high school.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERWomen have more often worked within the home, working equally as hard
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERIt is more difficult to research women’s lives than it is men’s.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERThat doesn’t mean that your curiosity is ever totally satisfied.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERThere has always been a tendency – race notwithstanding.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERThere is always more to tell.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERI think that one of the ways that Americans will come to want to look at history is by looking at their own families’ histories
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERI would argue, but not always out there where they’re counted, not always up there in the labor unions, certainly not in leadership positions.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERWhen we look at women, we have to look at the significance of their work in a different way from the way we look at it with men.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERYou have to decide what is extraneous and what is central.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERAnd how those stories relate to the larger picture of American history.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERI didn’t study history when I was in college, none at all, and only started to do graduate study when my children were going to graduate school.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERFor all kinds of reasons, it is more difficult to track women’s lives. Women’s words have simply been considered less important, so they have been preserved less often.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERIf you want to have a finished product, at some point you have to say “enough.”
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