Ultimately a historian has to put together a cohesive work. That doesn't mean that your curiosity is ever totally satisfied..

You have to decide what is extraneous and what is central. There is always more to tell. If you want to have a finished product, at some point you ha….

It is more difficult to research women's lives than it is men's. There has always been a tendency - race notwithstanding - to believe that women's co….

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, and how those storie….

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. Women have more ofte….

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 pr….

I have to throw in on a personal note that I didn't like history when I was in high school. I didn't study history when I was in college, none at all….

It is important for us to remember that black people have been patriotic and have fought for that American dream in every American war..