Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall is an American historian, and Julia Cherry Spruill Professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Life

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall was born in 1943, oldest of five children and daughter to Jinx Dowd. She graduated high school as valedictorian. She attended college at Southwestern at Memphis (now Rhodes College), where she first became involved in the Civil Rights Movement. Her grandmother often received angry letters about the work that she did. In 1965, she graduated from Southwestern at Memphis with high honors.

In 1967, she earned an M.A. from Columbia University. In 1970, she married Bob Hall and moved to Atlanta. Soon after, she returned to New York to complete her Ph.D., which she earned in 1974.

Over the course of her professional career, she has been president of the Organization of American Historians and the Southern Historical Association.

Jacquelyn Hall was arrested along with other protesters in May 2013 as part of the Moral Monday non-violent protest of actions taken by the NC General Assembly. Jacquelyn Dowd Hall is currently a historian at the University of North Carolina.

Classes taught by Hall:

• United States History to 1865
• Women in American History
• Women in the South
• Introduction to Oral History
• Women’s Oral History and Performance
• Selected Topics in the Comparative History of Women
• Readings in American’s Women’s History
• Research Seminar on Women’s History
• Ph.D. Research Seminar
• Historical Explanation and Research Design
• Research Seminar on Women’s History

http://history.unc.edu/people/faculty/jacquelyn-down-hall/Research Interests

Awards

• 1990 Guggenheim Fellowship
• 1999 National Humanities Medal
• 2003–2004 Radcliffe Institute Fellows
• Albert J. Beveridge Award, American Historical Association (best work in English on the history of the Americas), 1988.
• Merle Curti Social History Award, Organization of American Historians, co-winner (best book in social history published in 1986-87), 1988.
• Philip Taft Labor History Prize, Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations (outstanding contribution to American labor history), 1988.
• Annual Article Prize, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians (best article on any historical subject written by an American woman), 1987.
• Binkley-Stephenson Award, Organization of American Historians (best scholarly article published in the Journal of American History), 1987.
• Francis B. Simkins Award, Southern Historical Association) (best first book in Southern history), 1980.
• Lillian Smith Award, Southern Regional Council, (for writing that carries on Smith's legacy of elucidating the condition of racial and social inequity and proposing a vision of justice and human understanding), 1980.
• Bancroft Dissertation Award, Columbia University (awarded to the best dissertation in history, diplomacy, or diplomatic affairs), 1974.

Works

• "The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past", Journal of American History, March 2005
• "Last Words", Journal of American History, June 2002

Articles

• “Case Study: The Southern Oral History Program,” The Oxford Handbook of Oral History, ed. Donald A. Ritchie (2011), pp. 409–416.
• “The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past,” Journal of American History 91 (March 2005): 1233-263.
• “Women Writers, the ‘Southern Front,’ and the Dialectical Imagination,” Journal of Southern History 69 (February 2003): 3–38.
• “Last Words,” contribution to Round Table on Self and Subject, Journal of American History 89 (June 2002): 30–36.
• “Broadus Mitchell: Economic Historian of the South,” Reading Southern History: Essays on Interpreters and Interpretations, ed. Glenn Feldman (Tuscaloosa, 2001), 25–31;
• “Broadus Mitchell,” Radical History Review 45 (Fall 1989): 31-38.
• “‘To Widen the Reach of Our Love’: Autobiography, History, and Desire,” Feminist Studies 26 (Spring 2000): 231–47.
• “Landscapes of the Heart,” Ideas From the National Humanities Center 6 (1999): 17–23.
• “‘You Must Remember This’: Autobiography as Social Critique,” Journal of American History 85 (September 1998): 439–65; reprinted in The New South: New Histories, ed. J. William Harris, (London, 2007).
• “Open Secrets: Memory, Imagination, and the Refashioning of Southern Identity,” American Quarterly 50 (March 1998): 110–24; reprinted in Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader, ed. Ellen Dubois and Vicki Ruiz (New York, 2000, 2007, 2008).
• “O. Delight Smith: A Labor Organizer’s Odyssey,” in Forgotten Heroes from America’s Past: Inspiring Portraits from Our Leading Historians, ed. Susan Ware (New York, 1998), 185–93.
• “A Later Comment”; contribution to “What We See and Can’t See in the Past: A Round Table,” Journal of American History 83 (March 1997): 1268–70.
• “O. Delight Smith’s Progressive Era: Labor, Feminism and Reform in the Urban South,” in Visible Women: New Essays on American Activism, ed. Nancy Hewitt and Suzanne Lebsock (Urbana, 1993), 166–98.
• “Private Eyes, Public Women: Class and Sex in the Urban South, Atlanta, 1913–1915,” in Work Engendered: Toward a New History of American Labor, ed. Ava Baron (Ithaca, 1991), 243–72.
• “History, Story, and Performance: The Making and Remaking of a Southern Cotton Mill World,” in Reconstructing American Literary and Historical Studies, ed. Günter H. Lenz, Hartmut Keil, and Sabine Bröck-Sallah (New York, 1990), 324–44. Coauthor Della Pollock.
• "A Bond of Common Womanhood: Building an Interracial Community in the Jim Crow South," in Women, Families, and Communities: Readings in American History, ed. Nancy A. Hewitt (Glenview, Ill, 1990), 99-114.
• “Partial Truths,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 14 (Summer 1989): 900–911; reprinted in Southern Women: Histories and Identities, ed. Virginia Bernhard et al. (Columbia, MO, 1992).
• “Second Thoughts: On Writing a Feminist Biography,” Feminist Studies 13 (Spring 1987): 19–37.
• “Cotton Mill People: Work, Community and Protest in the Textile South, 1880–1940,” American Historical Review 91 (April 1986): 245–86. Coauthors Robert Korstad and James Leloudis. Reprinted in Major Problems in the History of the American South, ed. Paul D. Escott and David R. Goldfield (Lexington, Mass., 1990)
• Major Problems in the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, ed. Leon Fink (Lexington, Mass., 1992
• Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in American History, Vol. II, ed. Larry Madaras and James M. SoRelle (Guilford, Conn., 2001)
• The Social Fabric: American Life from the Civil War to the Present, ed. John H. Cary, Julius Weinberg, and Thomas L. Harshorne (New York, 1991, 1995), vol. 2.
• “Disorderly Women: Gender and Labor Militancy in the Appalachian South,” Journal of American History 73 (September 1986): 354–82. Reprinted in Women’s America: Refocusing the Past, ed. Linda K. Kerber and Jane DeHart Mathews (1982, 1987, 1991, 1995, 2000, 2009, 2011)
• Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader, ed. Ellen Dubois and Vicki Ruiz (1990, 1994)
• Gender in American History from 1890, ed. Barbara Melosh (1993)
• Half Sisters of History: Southern Women and the American Past, ed. Catherine Clinton (1994)
• Major Problems in American Women’s History, ed. Mary Beth Norton and Ruth M. Alexander (1996).
• “Lives through Time: Second Thoughts on Jessie Daniel Ames,” The Challenge of Feminist Biography: Writing the Lives of Modern American Women, ed. Sara Alpern et al. (Urbana, 1992).
• “Women in the South,” in Interpreting Southern History: Historiographical Essays in Honor of Sanford W. Higginbotham, ed. John B. Boles and Evelyn T. Nolen (Baton Rouge, 1987), 454–509. Coauthor Anne Firor Scott.
• “‘The Mind That Burns in Each Body’: Women, Rape, and Racial Violence,” in Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality, ed. Ann Snitow et al (New York, 1983), 328–49; reprinted in Race, Class, and Gender: An Anthology, ed. Margaret L. Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins (Belmont, Calif., 1992).
• “‘A Truly Subversive Affair’: Women Against Lynching in the Twentieth-Century South,” in Women of America: A History, ed. Carol Berkin and Mary Beth Norton (Boston, 1979), 360–88.

External links

• http://history.unc.edu/faculty/hall.html
• http://history.unc.edu/people/faculty/jacquelyn-down-hall/
• http://employees.cfmc.com/adamb/writings/reviews/likeafam.htm
• http://www.wral.com/naacp-protest-at-general-assembly-nets-27-arrests/12414437/
• http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/05/08/2880510/an-nc-history-worth-preserving.html
• http://www.unc.edu/spotlight/hall-engages-students-with-oral-histories/