There has always been a tendency – race notwithstanding.
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Anand Thakur
There has always been a tendency – race notwithstanding.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERThat makes history so appealing and so central to what I am trying to do.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERYou have to decide what is extraneous and what is central.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERWhat first intrigued me was this desire to understand my family and put it in the context of American history.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERIt is important for us to remember that black people have been patriotic and have fought for that American dream in every American war.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERIf you want to have a finished product, at some point you have to say “enough.”
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERThat doesn’t mean that your curiosity is ever totally satisfied.
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 ALEXANDERUltimately a historian has to put together a cohesive work.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERAnd how those stories relate to the larger picture of American history.
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 ALEXANDERWomen have more often worked within the home, working equally as hard
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERThere is always more to tell.
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 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 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.
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