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Summer 2025
June 12th, 7:30 pm
Warwick's
7812 Girard Ave, La Jolla, CA 92037
Join award-winning historian and UC Berkeley lecturer, Sarah Gold McBride as she discusses her book Whiskerology: The Culture of Hair in Nineteeth-Century America with former WAWH president and Professor of History at UC San Diego, Rebecca Jo Plant at Warwick's in La Jolla, California. Dr. Gold McBride will also be available to sign her book. More information on this free in-store event can be found on Warwick's event page.
July 24th, 7:00 pm
Elliot Bay Book Company
1521 10th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122
If you miss Dr. Gold McBride in Southern California, you'll have another chance to meet her and have your book signed in the Pacific Northwest.
Order your copy of Whiskerology from major retailers or small Northern California bookstores here on Dr. Gold McBride's website.
August 1, 2025
Santa Clara University
500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95053
WAWH Luncheon at the PCB-AHA Conference
The WAWH is pleased to present Dr. Arunima Datta as the distinguished speaker for the WAWH luncheon at the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association conference this summer in Santa Clara, California.
Dr. Datta is Associate Professor at the Department of History, University of North Texas, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of the UK. She is the author of the multiple award-winning book Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya (2021), which received the Sara A. Whaley Award from the National Women’s Studies Association, the Gita Chaudhuri Award from the Western Association of Women Historians, and the Stansky Award from the North American Conference of British Studies.
Datta's most recent book, Waiting on Empire: History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain (Oxford University Press, 2023) included material that won the Coordinating Council for Women in History 2022 Carol Gold Award for best article in history, and an honorable mention for the Walter D. Love Prize for best article in British History.
Her co-curated exhibit on travelling ayahs in Britain and British homes, part of the "Rooms Through Time: 1878-2049" series at the Museum of the Home (UK), has won a second-place award from the UK National Award for Museums and Permanent Exhibitions for 2025.
Datta has served as an associate editor of Gender & History and currently serves as an Associate Editor of Britain and the World, and as the Associate Review Editor of the American Historical Review. Her works have appeared in several scholarly journals, public history journals and magazines, and on BBC4.
This is a talk you won't want to miss! Join the WAWH in Santa Clara, California on August 1st for Dr. Arunima Datta's luncheon presentation of “Waiting on Empire: Travelling Ayahs in Britain and a History of Migration, Labor, and Counterflows of Empire.”
Patricia Schechter of Portland State University has launched a podcast!
In Family Secrets of the Spanish Civil War, Dr. Schechter and Dr. Dan Czitrom, Professor Emeritus, Mount Holyoke College discuss the stories, often carried and kept by mothers, aunts, and grandmothers, about their rich family connections to the Spanish Civil War. Themes include migration, class struggle, and the international fight against fascism.
Listeners will also hear about two new, family-driven books written by the hosts: El Terrible: Life and Labor in Pueblonuevo, 1887–1939 by Schechter and Kitchen Table History: Wrestling with my Family's Radical Past by Czitrom.
Tune in at the above link, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Pamela Stewart on Why Women March & Why it Still Matters
When Phoenix became the focus for the National Women’s March, Pamela Stewart sat down with Lauren Gilger of the Phoenix NPR affiliate KJZZ’s, “The Show,” to discuss Why women have marched throughout history—and why it still matters today.
The interview aired on January 24, 2024. Stewart is WAWH's Executive Director, Teaching Professor Emerita at Arizona State University, and the founder and owner of ACTIVHISTorian.com.