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Sarah Jane Deutsch

Sarah Jane Deutsch

Professor Emerita of History
History
sarah.deutsch@duke.edu
Dept of History, Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708
326 Classroom Building, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours Wednesdays 2-4, Carr Building Rm. 326  

Selected Publications

"Learning from Ludlow"

Chapter · 2013 The essays analyzes the existing literature on the Ludlow Massacres, embedding an analysis of the meaning of the event. ... Cite

Labor, Land, and Protest since Statehood

Chapter · 2009 This chapter places the dramatic upheavals of the twentieth century, beginning with border and labor strife in the 1910s and ending with the court house raid in Tierra Amarilla in 1967, in the context of regional, national, and transnational struggles and ... Cite

Review of Class and Gender Politics in Progressive-Era Seattle by John C. Putman

Journal Article The Journal of American History · December 2008 Full text Cite

Review of Catarino Garza’s Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border by Elliott Young

Journal Article The Journal of Southern History · November 2005 Full text Cite

"Being American in Boley, Oklahoma"

Chapter · 2004 I use a black community founded in the early 20th century to demarcate the 19th from the 20th century West, to discuss a shift in racial paradigms, and power dynamics in the American West. ... Cite

The Politics of Race and Sex in Boston’s NAACP, 1920-1940

Chapter · 2004 Using an interracial marriage that split the Boson NAACP, the essay examines the dynamics of race, sex, class, and politics in Boston from 1920 to 1940. ... Cite

Connections

Chapter · 2002 This is a reprint of a 1996 essay of mine as part of a special invited forum "Frontiers Reconsidered." It was also a first stab of mine at analyzing the border. ... Cite

excerpts

Chapter · 2002 Cite

Incendiary Actions

Journal Article The Women’s Review of Books · January 2001 Full text Cite

Women and the City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870-1940

Book · 2000 The book examines the way women transformed the urban environment between 1870 and 1940 and the ways in which spatial arrangements in the city affected women’s abilities to organize in their own interests politically, socially, and economically. (issued in ... Cite

No Small Courage: A History of Women in the United States

Book · 2000 This is a condensed version of my book by the same title for inclusion as a chapter in this volume. The book is a comprehensive original synthesis of U.S. women’s history from 1920-1940. ... Cite

From Ballots to Breadlines

Chapter · 2000 This is a condensed version of my book by the same title for inclusion as a chapter in this volume. The book is a comprehensive original synthesis of U.S. women’s history from 1920-1940. ... Cite

Review of Homicide, Race, and Justice in the American West, 1880-1920 by Clare V. McKanna

Journal Article Journal of American Ethnic History · January 1999 Cite

Review of Social Housekeepers: Women Shaping Public Policy in New Mexico, 1920-1940 by Sandra Schackel

Journal Article Montana: The Magazine of Western History · July 1994 Cite

Gender, Labor History, and Chicano/a Ethnic Identity

Journal Article Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies · January 1994 Full text Cite

Reconceiving the City: Women, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870-1910

Journal Article Gender & History · 1994 Women’s writings are drawn on to show how women of all classes & races challenged the sexual divisions of Boston, MA, 1870-1910. The relations of power among women & between women & men are demonstrated within the framework of the city’s physical environme ... Cite

Review of Poor Women and Their Families: Hard-Working Charity Cases, 1900-1930 by Beverly Stadum

Journal Article The Journal of Interdisciplinary History · January 1994 Full text Cite

Review of On Rims & Ridges: The Los Alamos Area since 1880. by Hal K. Rothman

Journal Article The Journal of American History · September 1993 Full text Cite

Review of A Family Venture: Men and Women on the Southern Frontier by Joan E. Cashin

Journal Article The American Historical Review · December 1992 Full text Cite

Review of Protestantism in the Sangre de Cristos, 1850-1920 by Randi Jones Walker

Journal Article The Catholic Historical Review · October 1992 Cite

Coming Together, Coming Apart: Women’s History and the West

Journal Article Montana: The Magazine of Western History · April 1991 Cite

Review of Chicano Ethnicity by Susan E. Keefe; Amado M. Padilla

Journal Article The Western Historical Quarterly · November 1988 Full text Cite

Review of Significant Sisters: The Grassroots of Active Feminism, 1839-1939 by Margaret Forster

Journal Article The Journal of Interdisciplinary History · October 1986 Full text Cite

The Elusive Guineamen: Newport Slavers, 1735-1774

Journal Article The New England Quarterly · June 1982 Full text Cite