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03920aam a2200481 i 4500 001 7DCE466AFF9A11E9A2D37E2597128E48 003 SILO 005 20191105010136 008 190612s2019 lau b s000 0ceng 010 $a 2019009855 020 $a 0807170437 020 $a 9780807170434 035 $a (OCoLC)1099276084 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-usu-- $a n-usu-- 050 00 $a D14 $b .N6 2019 082 00 $a 907.2/02 $2 23 245 00 $a No straight path : $b becoming women historians / $c edited by Elizabeth Jacoway ; with a foreword by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore. 264 1 $a Baton Rouge : $b Louisiana State University Press, $c [2019] 300 $a xiii, 246 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 $a Foreword: Personal histories, professional historians, and truth in the academy / Glenda Gilmore -- Introduction / Elizabeth Jacoway -- My improbable journey / Jannan Sherman -- Clueless / Sheila Skemp -- An untidy life in academe / Gail Schmunk Murray -- The hive / Beverly Greene Bond -- In pursuit of the dream / Elizabeth Jacoway -- Vocation / Emily Clark -- Creating myself / Pamela Tyler -- Once a teacher, always a teacher / Martha Swain -- Turning points / Sylvia Frey -- The past should be forever / Elizabeth Anne Payne. 520 $a "This remarkable book presents ten first-person accounts of women's experiences when they chose to enter the professional world as academic historians. The contributors, all successful female historians, came of age after World War II, in an era when it was unusual for women to think of pursuing professional careers in academia, and especially in history. Few of the contributors took a straight path into the profession; most attempted the more conventional pursuits of college, public school teaching, marriage, and motherhood. Given those commonalities, however, their stories are fascinatingly diverse: one rose from poverty in Arkansas to the Rutgers graduate program to the chairmanship of the history department at the University of Memphis; another pursued an archaeology degree, studied social work, and became a college administrator before entering the history graduate program at Tulane and becoming a professor there; another was a lobbyist, went to seminary, taught high school, entered the graduate history program at Indiana, and helped develop two Honors Colleges before becoming a history professor; and yet another grew up in segregated Memphis, taught high school for many years in New Jersey before earning a graduate history degree at the University of Memphis, where she now teaches. The experiences of the other contributors are equally distinctive. For all the essayists, the key words have been persistence and tenacity"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Women historians $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Women college teachers $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Women college teachers $z United States $x Social conditions. 651 0 $a Southern States $x Study and teaching. $x Study and teaching. 650 7 $a Study skills. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01136216 650 7 $a Women college teachers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01177488 650 7 $a Women college teachers $x Social conditions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01177500 650 7 $a Women historians. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01177742 651 7 $a Southern States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01244550 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Biography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423686 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 700 1 $a Jacoway, Elizabeth, $d 1944- $e editor. 700 1 $a Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth, $e writer of foreword. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317013255.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20191105025435.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7DCE466AFF9A11E9A2D37E2597128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search