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Cook, Blanche Wiesen

 Person

Biography

Occupations: Author; Professor; Historian.

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Blanche Wiesen Cook interviewed by Mary Rothschild

 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...
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

Blanche Wiesen Cook papers

 Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00484
Abstract

Blanche Wiesen Cook is a scholar and widely published author. This collection includes materials pertaining to Cook's biography of Eleanor Roosevelt; to her professional activities in the field of women's history and women's studies, including audio and video recordings of her lectures, speeches, and television appearances; and a small amount of biographical information.

Dates of Materials: 1933 - 2006
Found in: Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History / Blanche Wiesen Cook 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
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