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" In the brief span of five years in which American historians have begun to develop women’s history as an independent field, they have sought to find a conceptual framework and a methodology appropriate to the task. "
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" While still an undergraduate at the New School I offered my first course in Women’s History, “Great Women in American History” in the fall of 1962. "
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" Historical sources on the origins of slavery of slavery are sparse, speculative and difficult to evaluate. "
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" When I came to the United States in 1939 as a refugee from Hitler fascism, I had, like all refugees, a very problematic relationship with the English language. "
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" Streets in cities serve many purposes besides carrying vehicles, and city sidewalks – the pedestrian parts of the streets – serve many purposes besides carrying pedestrians. "
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" My dance is an art concerned with human values. It upholds only those values that make for harmony and opposes all forces inimical to those values. "
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" In the psychoanalytic concept of neuroses a shift of emphasis has taken place: whereas originally interest was focused on the dramatic symptomatic picture, it is now being realized more and more that the real source of these psychic disorders lies in character disturbances... "
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" The purpose of this paper is to try to set the historical record straight while the history in question is still in the making. "
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hips, thighs, hindquarters
grapefruits in grocery bags
skin cells "
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" Clara Mayer, the heart, brains and soul of the New School for Social Research from 1919 until 1960 hired me as registrar, that is, bean counter, during those early WWII years... "