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Category: Women’s History

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Narratives of Women and Girls: the Center for Applied Linguistics Collection

Posted by: Stephanie Hall

For Women’s History Month, I thought it would be interesting to highlight some examples of interviews with women and girls in American English Dialects: The Center for Applied Linguistics Collection. This online collection is one of several dialect collections in the American Folklife Center archive. With a little digging, such collections can yield exciting examples of …

Posted in: African Americans, Foodways, Holidays, Languages and Dialects, Native American History, Oral History, Women's History

A man playing a guitar and singing to a close crowd of a dozen or so men and women

Putting Foods By for Winter

Posted by: Stephanie Hall

This time of year in the northern hemisphere, agricultural communities celebrate the last harvest of the growing season. A great deal of work goes into the raising of food for our tables. Before electric refrigerators and local grocery stores, people also needed to work throughout the growing season to preserve food. The completion of that …

Posted in: Foodways, Mary Hufford, Women's History