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I have to throw in on a personal note that I didn’t like history when I was in high school.

Adele Logan Alexander

To believe that women’s contributions have been less important than men’s contributions because women are usually less public people.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDER

Anand Thakur
There is always more to tell.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDER

Anand Thakur
For 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 ALEXANDER

Anand Thakur
And how those stories relate to the larger picture of American history.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDER

Anand Thakur
It 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 ALEXANDER

Anand Thakur
I 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 ALEXANDER

Anand Thakur
I have to throw in on a personal note that I didn’t like history when I was in high school.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDER

Anand Thakur
Ultimately a historian has to put together a cohesive work.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDER

Cohesive Curiosity Historian Mean Together Ultimately
When 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 ALEXANDER

Anand Thakur
Women have more often worked within the home, working equally as hard
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDER

Anand Thakur
I 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 ALEXANDER

Anand Thakur
It is more difficult to research women’s lives than it is men’s.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDER

Anand Thakur
I 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 ALEXANDER

Anand Thakur
You have to decide what is extraneous and what is central.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDER

Anand Thakur
There has always been a tendency – race notwithstanding.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDER

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What first intrigued me was this desire to understand my family and put it in the context of American history.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDER

Anand Thakur