Hidden from history: Archivists reveal the lives of famous, and not-so-famous, women
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Hidden from history: Archivists reveal the lives of famous, and not-so-famous, women
Saved by Alex Burns
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amazon.comHistory often presents itself as grand, sweeping narratives—wars, revolutions, prominent figures that reshaped the world. But the tiny, easily missed fragments of peoples everyday life holds a different truth than what we’re used to seeing. In some ways, the search for these details feels like reaching back in time and keeping those voices from fad
... See moreone. To make women visible, when history has omitted them, implies a corollary task: to work on the relationship between the sexes, and to make this relationship the subject of historical study.