S1E2: His Story Her Story

This episode discusses how the definition of history excludes women and two women historians some forgot: Mercy Otis Warren and Harriet E. Wilson. Brooke may or may not engage in some angry quill writing. 

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Bibliography

Beard, Mary. Women & Power: A Manifesto. Liveright Publishing Corporation: New York, NY, 2017.

Galton, F. "Vox populi," Nature, 1949 (75).

“Harriet E. Wilson Biography “ The Harriet Wilson Project. 2017. http://www.harrietwilsonproject.net/harriet-wilson-.html.

Harriet E. Wilson. Our nig or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, In A Two-Story White House, North. The Project Gutenberg EBook. Originally published 1859. Released 1996. Posted 2011.  http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/584/pg584.html.

Lewis, Jone Johnson. “Mercy Otis Warren,” Thought Co. Last modified February 04, 2019, https://www.thoughtco.com/mercy-otis-warren-biography-3530669.

McDonald, Janis L. (1992) "The Need for Contextual ReVision: Mercy Otis Warren, A Case in Point." Yale Journal of Law & Feminism:Vol. 5: Iss. 1, Article 7. Available at: http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/yjlf/vol5/iss1/7.

Michals, Debra. "Mercy Otis Warren." National Women's History Museum. Last modified 2015. www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/mercy-otis-warren.

Raphael, Ray. “The Righteous Revolution of Mercy Otis Warren.” Gilder Lehrman. Last modified 2009. https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-now/righteous-revolution-mercy-otis-warren.

Trickey, Eric. “The Woman Whose Words Inflamed the American Revolution: Mercy Otis Warren used her wit to agitate for independence.” Smithsonian Magazine. Last modified June 20, 2017. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/woman-whose-words-inflamed-american-revolution-180963765/.

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