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On March 27, 2003, the Library offered a talk with historians and authors, including Barbara Haber, Sylvia Jukes Morris, and Nell Irvin Painter. The panel discussed how the possessions of women—photographs, cookbooks, letters—provide a unique opportunity for understanding the lives of individuals whose thoughts and ideas were often denied expression in the public sphere, and so excluded from the traditional historical record.
Haber is the former Curator of Books at the Schlesinger Library at Harvard and author of From Hardtack to Home Fries: An Uncommon History of American Cooks & Meals. Morris is the author of Rage for Fame: The Ascent of Clare Boothe Luce and Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Portrait of a First Lady. Painter, Edwards Professor of American History at Princeton University, is the author of Southern History Across the Color Line and Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol.
