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VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT: SUSAN WAREadmin2022-04-07T13:00:29-04:00

THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Susan Ware

“It’s important to hear and preserve women’s voices, so that we can learn from them in the future.”

A pioneer in the field of women’s history and a leading feminist biographer. General editor of the American National Biography and the Honorary Women’s Suffrage Centennial Historian at the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. From 1997 to 2005 she served as the editor of volume five of the biographical dictionary Notable American Women at the Radcliffe Institute. Her research interests include twentieth-century American history and the history of American women, as well as biography. She is the author of Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote (2019) and has published books on women in the New Deal and the 1930s; biographies of Molly Dewson, Amelia Earhart, Mary Margaret McBride and Billie Jean King; and a women’s history anthology.

Interviewed by Judy Waxman, February 2022

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More About Susan:

  • Susan Ware’s official website
  • Select interviews
    • Power and the Woman’s Vote: How Can History Help? With Susan Ware, December 2021
    • Virtual Author Talk: Why They Marched by Susan Ware, September 2020
    • How were we taught about Women’s Suffrage. A Conversation with Historian Susan Ware, September 2020
    • Susan Ware on CBS Sunday Morning, August 2020
    • Interview with feminist historian Susan Ware on women’s suffrage movement, April 2020
  • Appearances on C-SPAN
  • Wikipedia page

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