Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

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Jacquelyn Dowd Hall is an American historian, and Julia Cherry Spruill Professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.^[1]

Life

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall was born in 1943, oldest of five children and daughter to Jinx Dowd. She graduated high school as valedictorian. She attended college at Southwest Tennessee, where she first became involved in the Civil Right’s Movement. Her grandmother often received angry letters about the work that she did. In 1965, she graduated from Southwest Tennessee with high honors.

In 1967, she earned an M.A. from Columbia University. In 1970, she married Bob Hall and moved to Atlanta. Soon after, she returned to New York to complete her Ph.D., which she earned in 1974.

Over the course of her professional career, she has been president of the Organization of American Historians and the Southern Historical Association.

Jacquelyn Hall was arrested along with other protesters in March 2013 as part of the Moral Monday non-violent protest of actions taken by the NC General Assembly. ^[2] ^[3] Jacquelyn Dowd Hall is currently a Chapel Hill historian at the University of North Carolina.

Classes taught by Hall:

United States History to 1865
Women in American History
Women in the South
Introduction to Oral History
Women’s Oral History and Performance
Selected Topics in the Comparative History of Women
Readings in American’s Women’s History
Research Seminar on Women’s History
Ph.D. Research Seminar
Historical Explanation and Research Design
Research Seminar on Women’s History

^[4] http://history.unc.edu/people/faculty/jacquelyn-down-hall/Research Interests

Awards

1990 Guggenheim Fellowship^[5]
1999 National Humanities Medal
2003–2004 Radcliffe Institute Fellows ^[6]
Albert J. Beveridge Award, American Historical Association (best work in English on the history of the Americas), 1988.
Merle Curti Social History Award, Organization of American Historians, co-winner (best book in social history published in 1986-87), 1988.
Philip Taft Labor History Prize, Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations (outstanding contribution to American labor history), 1988.
Annual Article Prize, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians (best article on any historical subject written by an American woman), 1987.
Binkley-Stephenson Award, Organization of American Historians (best scholarly article published in the Journal of American History), 1987.
Francis B. Simkins Award, Southern Historical Association) (best first book in Southern history), 1980.
Lillian Smith Award, Southern Regional Council, (for writing that carries on Smith's legacy of elucidating the condition of racial and social inequity and proposing a vision of justice and human understanding), 1980.
Bancroft Dissertation Award, Columbia University (awarded to the best dissertation in history, diplomacy, or diplomatic affairs), 1974.

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Works

Like a family: the making of a Southern cotton mill world. UNC Press. 2000. ISBN 978-0-8078-4879-1.
Revolt against chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the women's campaign against lynching. Columbia University Press. 1993. ISBN 978-0-231-08283-9.

Articles

“Case Study: The Southern Oral History Program,” The Oxford Handbook of Oral History, ed. Donald A. Ritchie (2011), pp. 409–416.
“The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past,” Journal of American History 91 (March 2005): 1233-263.
“Women Writers, the ‘Southern Front,’ and the Dialectical Imagination,” Journal of Southern History 69 (February 2003): 3–38.
“Last Words,” contribution to Round Table on Self and Subject, Journal of American History 89 (June 2002): 30–36.
“Broadus Mitchell: Economic Historian of the South,” Reading Southern History: Essays on Interpreters and Interpretations, ed. Glenn Feldman (Tuscaloosa, 2001), 25–31;
“Broadus Mitchell,” Radical History Review 45 (Fall 1989): 31-38.
“‘To Widen the Reach of Our Love’: Autobiography, History, and Desire,” Feminist Studies 26 (Spring 2000): 231–47.
“Landscapes of the Heart,” Ideas From the National Humanities Center 6 (1999): 17–23.
“‘You Must Remember This’: Autobiography as Social Critique,” Journal of American History 85 (September 1998): 439–65; reprinted inThe New South: New Histories, ed. J. William Harris, (London, 2007).
“Open Secrets: Memory, Imagination, and the Refashioning of Southern Identity,” American Quarterly 50 (March 1998): 110–24; reprinted in Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader, ed. Ellen Dubois and Vicki Ruiz (New York, 2000, 2007, 2008).
“O. Delight Smith: A Labor Organizer’s Odyssey,” in Forgotten Heroes from America’s Past: Inspiring Portraits from Our Leading Historians, ed. Susan Ware (New York, 1998), 185–93.
“A Later Comment”; contribution to “What We See and Can’t See in the Past: A Round Table,” Journal of American History 83 (March 1997): 1268–70.
“O. Delight Smith’s Progressive Era: Labor, Feminism and Reform in the Urban South,” in Visible Women: New Essays on American Activism, ed. Nancy Hewitt and Suzanne Lebsock (Urbana, 1993), 166–98.
“Private Eyes, Public Women: Class and Sex in the Urban South, Atlanta, 1913–1915,” in Work Engendered: Toward a New History of American Labor, ed. Ava Baron (Ithaca, 1991), 243–72.
“History, Story, and Performance: The Making and Remaking of a Southern Cotton Mill World,” in Reconstructing American Literary and Historical Studies, ed. Günter H. Lenz, Hartmut Keil, and Sabine Bröck-Sallah (New York, 1990), 324–44. Coauthor Della Pollock.
"A Bond of Common Womanhood: Building an Interracial Community in the Jim Crow South," in Women, Families, and Communities: Readings in American History, ed. Nancy A. Hewitt (Glenview, Ill, 1990), 99-114.
“Partial Truths,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 14 (Summer 1989): 900–911; reprinted in Southern Women: Histories and Identities, ed. Virginia Bernhard et al. (Columbia, MO, 1992).
“Second Thoughts: On Writing a Feminist Biography,” Feminist Studies 13 (Spring 1987): 19–37.
“Cotton Mill People: Work, Community and Protest in the Textile South, 1880–1940,” American Historical Review 91 (April 1986): 245–86. Coauthors Robert Korstad and James Leloudis. Reprinted in Major Problems in the History of the American South, ed. Paul D. Escott and David R. Goldfield (Lexington, Mass., 1990)
Major Problems in the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, ed. Leon Fink (Lexington, Mass., 1992
Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in American History, Vol. II, ed. Larry Madaras and James M. SoRelle (Guilford, Conn., 2001)
The Social Fabric: American Life from the Civil War to the Present, ed. John H. Cary, Julius Weinberg, and Thomas L. Harshorne (New York, 1991, 1995), vol. 2.
“Disorderly Women: Gender and Labor Militancy in the Appalachian South,” Journal of American History 73 (September 1986): 354–82. Reprinted in Women’s America: Refocusing the Past, ed. Linda K. Kerber and Jane DeHart Mathews (1982, 1987, 1991, 1995, 2000, 2009, 2011)
Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader, ed. Ellen Dubois and Vicki Ruiz (1990, 1994)
Gender in American History from 1890, ed. Barbara Melosh (1993)
Half Sisters of History: Southern Women and the American Past, ed. Catherine Clinton (1994)
Major Problems in American Women’s History, ed. Mary Beth Norton and Ruth M. Alexander (1996).
“Lives through Time: Second Thoughts on Jessie Daniel Ames,” The Challenge of Feminist Biography: Writing the Lives of Modern American Women, ed. Sara Alpern et al. (Urbana, 1992).
“Women in the South,” in Interpreting Southern History: Historiographical Essays in Honor of Sanford W. Higginbotham, ed. John B. Boles and Evelyn T. Nolen (Baton Rouge, 1987), 454–509. Coauthor Anne Firor Scott.
“‘The Mind That Burns in Each Body’: Women, Rape, and Racial Violence,” in Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality, ed. Ann Snitow et al (New York, 1983), 328–49; reprinted in in Race, Class, and Gender: An Anthology, ed. Margaret L. Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins (Belmont, Calif., 1992).
“‘A Truly Subversive Affair’: Women Against Lynching in the Twentieth-Century South,” in Women of America: A History, ed. Carol Berkin and Mary Beth Norton (Boston, 1979), 360–88.

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Anthologies

Susan Ware, ed. (2000). "O. Delight Smith:A Labor Organizer's Odyssey". Forgotten Heroes: Inspiring American Portraits from Our Leading Historians. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-684-86872-1.
Linda K. Kerber, Jane Sherron De Hart, ed. (2000). Women's America: refocusing the past. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-512180-3.
Vicki Ruíz, Ellen Carol DuBois, ed. (2000). "Open Secrets: Memory, Imagination, and the Refashioning of Southern Identity". Unequal sisters: a multicultural reader in U.S. women's history. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-92516-7.
Sara Alpern, ed. (1992). "Lives through Time: Second Thoughts on Jessie Daniel Ames". The Challenge of Feminist Biography: Writing the Lives of Modern American Women. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-06292-6.

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