Articles from July 2019
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Relying on the Unreliable: Historian Catherine Stewart Examines 1930s Domestic Workers
Wednesday, July 10, 2019
Obermann Fellow-in-Residence Catherine Stewart’s current book project, The New Maid, relies in part on a highly unreliable source—student essays. Specifically, Stewart is interested in what is divulged through a cache of papers written by students at a private women’s college in the South in response to the topic, “Negro servants in my household.” Written between 1928 and 1940, the nearly 100...