Tag: Gender

Interviews

Interview with Cynthia Kierner

EAS Miscellany sat down recently to chat with Cynthia Kierner, author of  “George Washington and the Ladies of Trenton: The New Jersey Women Who Feted a Hero and Then Disappeared from History,” our featured article from our Summer 2025 issue. What drew you to the story of Trenton’s 1789 reception of George Washington as a lens for exploring Revolutionary-era women’s political engagement and historical memory? … Continue reading Interview with Cynthia Kierner

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Facing the Archive from the Present, Roundtables, Special Features

The Ethics of Narrating the Past – Sherri V. Cummings

What are the ethics of narrating the past? I often wrestle with this question while researching the quotidian lives of African women and their daughters, in slavery and precarious freedom, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Saidiya Hartman, in her essay “Venus in Two Acts,” reminds us to respect the “shrieks, the moans, the nonsense and the opacity,” of their experiences despite the want, … Continue reading The Ethics of Narrating the Past – Sherri V. Cummings

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