Dialogue: Southern Women in History and Historiography

dialogue: southern women in hlstory and Historiography A historic event occurred in New Orleans at the 1995 annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association (SHA): five distinguished women historians convened a teacher workshop devoted to the topic of "Southern Women in History and Historiography." More than a hundred people gathered for this session, the first of its kind under the auspices of the SHA. Darlene Clark Hine of Michigan State University presided. Presenters included Carol Ruth Berkin, Baruch College, City University of New York; Catherine Clinton, W.E.B. DuBois Institute, Harvard University; Martha H. Swain, formerly of Texas Woman's University and now affiliated with Mississippi State University; and Margaret Ripley Wolfe, East Tennessee State University. With the exception of Berkin's presentation on colonial southern women (forthcoming during 1997from Oxford University Press in The DevU's Lane: Sex and Race in the Early South, a collection by Catherine Clinton and Michèle Gillespie), edited versions of their presentations appear below. < 1996 Journal of Women's History, Vol. 8 No. 3 (Fall) ...