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Tuttle women’s history interview

MWWC Director Jennifer Tuttle was recently interviewed by Dr. Pamela Toler of the blog “History in the Margins” in observation of Women’s History Month. In Talking About Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Jennifer Tuttle,” Jennifer touts the research resources available in the MWWC and offers some thoughts on the significance of our founding in 1959. She also discusses the challenges and significance of archival research for her current book project, a literary biography of Dora L. Mitchell. This biography, which focuses not only on a historical woman but on a little-known Black woman whose life is very sparsely documented, requires ever more persistence of the researcher and demands that even the most seasoned scholars must continue to expand their skills in order to do justice to their research subjects.