Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz

Person

Staff Only

Dates

Existence: 1942 January 31

Biography

Occupations: Author; Historian; Professor, History.

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz interviewed by Mary Rothschild, 2001-05-16

File

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Living U.S. Women's History Oral History Project collection consists of 17.25 linear feet of audiotapes, videotapes and transcripts. There are fifty-one individual oral histories plus group discussions conducted between 2000 and 2005. The project documents the emergence and development of U.S. women's history between 1960 and 2000 by creating an archive that explores a new group of scholars who entered the historical profession after 1960. It explores these historians' professional and...

Dates of Materials: 2001-05-16

Found in: Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History / SSC-MS-00423, Living U.S. Women's History Oral History Project oral histories / Oral histories

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz papers

Collection

Identifier: SSC-MS-00618

Abstract Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz is a professor emerita of History and American Studies at Smith College and a writer, whose research ranges over a number of areas: urban life, cultural philanthropy, women, higher education, biography, sexuality, sexual representation, censorship, intimate life, understandings of health and illness, understanding of the landscape, and tourism. Papers include writings by Horowitz, correspondence, and materials pertaining to published books, teaching, and professional...

Dates of Materials: 1908 - 2016

Found in: Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History / Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz papers

Living U.S. Women's History Oral History Project oral histories

Collection

Identifier: SSC-MS-00423

Abstract

The collection includes fifty-one oral histories of scholars of U.S. women's history. The interviews document the emergence and development of women's history as a discipline from 1960 to 2000, as well as the interviewees' professional and personal lives, their choices, and their intellectual commitments.

Dates of Materials: 1980 - 2007

Found in: Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History / Living U.S. Women's History Oral History Project oral histories