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About the Author:
Jennifer Banning Tomás is an award winning educator and Professor of American history at Piedmont Virginia Community College. She is a graduate of Binghamton University, S.U.N.Y, where the first formal PhD program in women’s history in the United States was established in 1974. There, she developed a keen sense of the power of women’s and gender history to inspire–and to expose the ways in which gendered relations of power have affected the lives and possibilities of people in different times and places. She specializes in the social and political history of Modern America, women and gender, and social movements.
She is available to speak to book clubs, libraries, and secondary, and post-secondary level student groups about her work, the need for women’s history, and the power of women’s history. She can be contacted at clioreclaimed@clioreclaimed.org.
Why do American women need to reclaim their place in written history at all? When did they go “missing”? Once upon a time in America, women were well-known writers of popular history. Between the time of the American Revolution and the late 19th century, women such as abolitionist Lydia Maria Child and magazine editor Sarah…