It's time to celebrate a little-known writer called... Willa Cather! 🎉 (Born on this day in 1873!) Read much about Cather with: - Melissa Homestead's "Willa Cather in the Denver Times in 1915 and New Evidence of the Origins of The Professor's House": muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic... (1/3)

Today we celebrate the birthday of... Louisa May Alcott! 🎈 You can read our latest forum on Alcott, edited by Max L. Chapnick and Eagan Dean for the 15th anniversary of Little Women: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic... ✨ But also: 1/4

Do you have a digital project recovering the work of American women writers? Apply now for the Recovery Hub's Project Showcase! Seeking mission-related projects at various stages of completion for peer review + a public showcase + review in "Reviews in Digital Humanities." bit.ly/RH-showcase

If you were at the SSAWW conference, remember to send us your papers pour the Legacy contest! ✨

💬 For all SSAWW attendees: Our very own Travis Foster still has a few slots available for this year's edition of "Chat with an Editor" during the triannual SSAWW conference in Philadelphia! He will be there to answer all of your questions about Features. 1/3

It's only fitting that Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, author of many ghost stories and a play about the Salem trials, would have been born on Halloween! (October 31, 1852) 🎃 Read more about her with: 1/3

Announcement! 📣 Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers is happy to announce a contest to honor the best papers presented at the upcoming Society for the Study of American Women Writers conference (5-9 November 2025) in Philadelphia. 1/3

It's time for a celebration of Sarah Josepha Hale, born on the October 24, 1788! 🎈 Enjoy readings of her work with: - "Embodied Pedagogies: Femininity, Diversity, and Community in Anthologies of Women's Writing, 1836–2009" by Karen L. Kilcup - muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic... 1/3

Happy (not quite) birthday to Hannah Crafts, whose precise date of birth is unknown (circa 1830), but who still deserves to be celebrated! Read about Crafts with: - "Addition by Subtraction: Toward a Literary History of Racial Representation" by Gene Andrew Jarrett: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic... 1/2

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper is 200 today! @c19americanists.bsky.social @digblk.bsky.social @ccp-org.bsky.social @blkgrlpoet.bsky.social @profgabrielle.bsky.social @npr.org She’s just as fabulous, relevant, and fiery now as she was in C19! For a sample, see commonplace.online/article/vol-...

Born on this day in 1825... the great Frances Ellen Watkins Harper! You can of course still read our 2024 issue dedicated to Harper, introduced by Eric Gardner: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic.... Available in open access! But don't forget previous and equally excellent contributions on Harper: 1/3

Thank you Eagan for your review ✨ (It convinced me to give it a read!) And it's a truly key topic for gender studies!

#c19 question: this daguerreotype pops up in a few places on social media, and now wikipedia, identified as Harriet E. Wilson. But is there any scholarly provenance documenting that it is / probably is her?

Another birthday to celebrate today: Sarah Orne Jewett's! (Born in 1849!) 🌲🌲🌲 Here's a slew of great essays on one of Maine's most precious treasures : - "Eunice and the Jade Gods: Jewett's Religious Rhetoric in A Country Doctor" by Terry Heller: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic... 1/3

Do you want to celebrate Lydia Sigourney, born on this day in 1791? 🎈We suggest this great essay by Bryan Sinche, « Lydia Sigourney’s Lydia Sigourney’s Sailors and the Limits of Sentiment »: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic... (if you do not have access to the article, send us a quick message!) 1/3

New issue of Legacy is out, and open access! 🗞️ Click right here to access Volume 42, No 1: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55448 ! On the menu: - "Leaving Giants Unslain: Idle Activism in Catharine Sedgwick's The Linwoods and Other Writings" by Jordan L. Von Cannon 1/3

Ten days left to apply to this great mentorship program!

In 2022, we received an NEH grant to advance our mission to amplify and assist scholars working to digitally recover neglected texts by women writers of the Americas. What did we do with it? A lot! Read all about the Recovery Hub's work in our NEW white paper: recoveryhub.siue.edu/wp-content/u...

Are you a Phd student? Do you work on American women writers? Would you like to receive mentorship from some of the foremost specialists in the field? If yes, read below! ⬇️ ✨ 1/3

Still in open access, from the latest issue of Legacy: the incredible forum on Louisa May Alcott's 1873 novel Work, introduced by Max L. Chapnick and Eagan Dean! Follow the link: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic.... 1/3

In honor of Juneteenth, check out the Teaching Hard History podcast from Learning for Justice, to "commit to teaching the hard history that is foundational to the US and the ongoing movement for freedom and equality." Includes episodes centered on film and literature. lfj.pub/hard-history...

Did you know that the Recovery Hub offers free consultations on digital recovery projects? We're here to help you work through questions at any stage of your project, from early imaginings to the final product. #academicsky Book a chat with a digital humanist! calendly.com/recoveryhub-... (1/3)

A big WHOOPS—and congratulations—to Elizabeth James, who co-wrote "Methodologies for Exploring Unknown Archives." Our social media coordinator missed the fact that James was the Recovery Hub consultant for the Woman's Literary Club of Baltimore Digital Archive. Great work, Elizabeth! #academicsky

This Wed., May 28 at 12 noon Central, join us for our first Tech Hour, "Getting Started with Digital Humanities." This free Zoom session will explore early steps for beginning a digital humanities project. Register and get the Zoom link: recoveryhub.siue.edu/2025/05/14/s... #academicsky

To continue the exploration of Legacy vol. 42 no. 2, I turn today to the incredible forum on F.E. Watkins Harper, whose 200th anniversary we will celebrate in September 2025! (This will be in two parts)

Per Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, remembering Black soldiers who “marched to the front, faithful to the country when others were faithless—who were rallying around the flag when Rebels were trampling it under feet; true to the country when she wanted a friend.” See commonplace.online/article/vol-...

As promised, let's have a look together at the incredible contents of the latest issue of Legacy! ✏ Firstly: "Learning to Read American Women Writers" by Patricia Okker 1/3

Join us for our FREE Tech Hour Zoom workshops on getting started with digital literary recovery projects, digital humanities project management, and teaching with existing digital recovery projects! All are welcome. #academicsky #disruptthecanon Learn more: recoveryhub.siue.edu/.../14/summe...

In 2020, a National Endowment for the Humanities grant made our work at the Recovery Hub possible. The term for our grant recently ended as scheduled, and we're happy to say we're still here—and we're still working to help you recover neglected works by women writers of the Americas! #academicsky

Thank you so much Eagan and Max for your great work! So honored and happy to see my essay in @legacy1984.bsky.social

I hear it's a great book--and a great review!

Thank you all for this forum on Frances Ellen Harper! We're so greateful! Have a look at all those great contributions teased by Eagan Dean...

Volume 41, Number 2, 2024 of Legacy is online! 🎉 You can find the entire issue here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/53522 ! We'll be covering each piece and why you should reach them in the coming days!

New drop in the @legacy1984.bsky.social Frances Harper Special Issue: "We Need to Speak about Home: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Domestic Concerns" dx.doi.org/10.1353/leg....

A powerful piece by Patricia Okker, former President of the New College of Florida, on how reading American women writers can shape our current moment. This is what the humanities can do, and this is why they are so afraid of us. Free access from Legacy: muse.jhu.edu/article/959226

Is there a Legacy article that your read as a grad student and which radically changed the way you conduct your work? Some fine prose you wish to celebrate? For the "Editors' Picks" series, we ask our readers and community to share articles that inspired them in their work and life, 1/2

An exciting delivery from @bucknellupress.bsky.social. The Art of Retreat considers the aesthetic possibilities of domestic retreat imagined in the fiction of the early US. You can read more and order the book at the link in my profile.

Last SSAWW pre-panel! If you haven't already, discover the brand new SSAWW mentorship program for graduate students! Click the link to register ⬇️ rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

EDITORS' PICK N°2! Today's your lucky day because you bring you more great reads! Here's Jennifer Putzi's second choice for our "Editors' Pick" series: 1/3

Second SSAWW pre-panel! The first one was truly wonderful, so you *really* don't want to miss this! Just click the link to register: rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The daily barrage of evil made me hold back on a cover reveal, but maybe this is the day. Out later in 2025, this book, like 7000+ books & so many other rich projects, would not exist without the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities. These stories must be told & we must save the NEH.

Don't forget that in a couple of days you can attend this incredible-sounding pre-panel for the 2025 SSAWW conference! Just click on the link below!

EDITORS' PICK N°1: For our very first "Editors' Pick", we've asked Jennifer Putzi to tell us about her all-time favorite pieces in the Legacy archive, and she selected two! Let's discover the first: 1/3

SSAWW pre-panels! In advance of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers 2025 Conference in Philadelphia, SSAWW and SSAWW’s Graduate Student Caucus are co-hosting three online panels, showcasing the exciting work of our dissertating graduate student members. /1

So... what is your Editor's Pick? 📚 Send us your choice! 4/4

Launching soon... The Legacy "Editors' Pick" series! To celebrate all the incredible work accomplished and published by our community, every two weeks we will let someone pick one (or two!) articles in the Legacy archive that had a particularly significant impact on their own thinking and writing 1/

Let's celebrate another fabulous addition to our Editorial Board: Elissa Zellinger! Elissa Zellinger is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of English at Texas Tech University. She is the author of Lyrical Strains: Liberalism and Women’s Poetry in Nineteenth-Century America (UNC 2020). 1/3

New arrival! Let us extend a warm welcome to the newest member of our team: Don James McLaughlin will be sitting on the Editorial Board of Legacy! Don James McLaughlin is an assistant professor of nineteenth-century American literature at the University of Tulsa. 1/4

Thank you to Maria Sanchez (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) and Faith Barrett (Duquesne University) for their long and faithful service on the Legacy Editorial Board! Maria was on the Board for five years and Faith for six-- 1/2