Christina Huang
Christina Huang was a Chinese American student who testified before the New Jersey State of Legislators to help lobby for Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) History to be taught in public schools.
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Marion Thompson Wright
African American historian and teacher Marion Thompson Wright (1902-1962) of Newark wrote her doctoral dissertation on “The Education of Negroes in New Jersey.”
Elizabeth Cary
1600s Viscountess Falkland , writer and translator
Elizabeth Casey
Irish author (as ‘E. Owens Blackburne ’)
Mary Louise Defender Wilson
Dakotah Sioux/Hidatsa storyteller, historian and educator
Darlene Clark Hine
“When I decided to become a historian,” recalls Darlene Clark Hine, “the last group I intended to study was black women.” That these words come from arguably the most influential scholar of African-American women’s history reflects the intertwined evolution of a career and field of study shaped by a struggle for recognition and legitimacy.
Annette Gordon-Reed
No historian has done more to recover the stories of enslaved African-Americans than Annette Gordon-Reed, whose 2008 book The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in History, as well as wide acclaim.
Anita Leslie
Irish biographer
Maureen Wall
Irish historian
Emily Anderson
Irish academic, code breaker, musicologist and translator