Maureen Honey

World History

This Day In History

Nov. 25 – In 1986, the Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese…
Nov. 26 – In 1942, President Roosevelt ordered…
Nov. 27 – In 1973, the Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who’d resigned.
Nov. 28 – In 1943, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin met in Tehran during World War II…
Nov. 18 – In 1976, Spain’s parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.
Nov. 19 – In 1863, President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
Nov. 20 – In 1945, 24 Nazi leaders went on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany….
Nov. 21 – n 1995, the presidents of three rival Balkan states agreed to make peace in Bosnia, ending nearly four years of terror and ethnic bloodletting that have left a quarter of a million people dead in the worst war in Europe since World War II…
Nov. 22 – In 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas…
Nov. 24 – In 1963, Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded…

Selected publications and/or projects: Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance (Rutgers 1989), revised edition 2006. Double-Take: A Revisionist Harlem Renaissance Anthology (Rutgers 2001) co-edited with Venetria Patton. A Japanese Nightingale by Onoto Watanna and Madame Butterfly by John Luther Long (Rutgers 2002) co-edited with Jean Lee Cole. Bitter Fruit: African American Women in World War II (University of Missouri 1999). Breaking the Ties That Bind: Popular Stories of the New Woman (University of Oklahoma 1992), eBook available through UNL Libraries/EBSCO. Creating Rosie the Riveter: Class, Gender and Propaganda in World War II (University of Massachusetts Press 1984). eBook available through UNL Libraries/EBSCO and Former Director of Women's Studies, 1987-1992.

Bitter Fruit

July 07, 2014

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/188332.Bitter_Fruit?from_search=true Bitter Fruit: African American Women in World War II by Maureen Honey (Editor) Despite…

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