Julia Pardoe
1800s UK author
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Ellen Creathorne Clayton
Irish illustrator and writer
Chary Gumeta
Mexican poet and art promoter.
Julia Keese Nelson Colles
Julia Keese Nelson Colles (1840-1913) was an American academic and a founding member of the Women’s Board of the New Jersey Historical Society.
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.
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.