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Toti Dal Monte
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Marie Raschke
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Marta Hegemann
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Angie Debo
* January 31, 1890 in Beattie, Kansas
† February 21, 1988 in Enid, Oklahoma
U.S. historian and writer, author of nine books on American Indian and Western history
“I violated history by telling the truth.”
And indeed she did. When Angie Elbertha Debo spoke these words near the end of her career, she was referring to the numerous books and many articles she had written or edited about American Indians, in which she tackled issues of harsh, often criminal mistreatment of Indians on the part of US institutions and government – a topic that previous historians had mostly “pussyfooted” around. In investigating what really happened to Indians and writing about them from their point of view, Debo contributed greatly to launching the “new Indian history.”
Angie was born on January 31, 1890, near Beattie, Kansas. Ten years later she traveled in a covered wagon with her parents and younger brother, Edwin, to live in the town of Marshall, in what was then Oklahoma territory. The family arrived a decade after the 1889 land run, in which much of the land was opened to white settlers. The Debos bought a farm, but the land turned out to be…read more
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American author, anthropologist, and folkorist
born January 7, 1891 in Notasulga, Alabama
died January 28, 1960 in Fort Pierce, Florida
55th anniversary of death on January 28, 2015
Author, anthropologist and folkorist Zora Neale Hurston was the most prolific Black woman writer in the USA between 1920 and 1950; the foremother of a generation of African-American women writers, she captured and celebrated the culture of rural Black America in her novels, stories and essays.
Hurston was born in an all-Black community rich in folk-tradition and free of racial prejudice. Her father was a Baptist preacher and mayor of the town, and her mother bore eight children and urged her spirited and precocious daughter to "jump at de sun." The education she received at the local school from followers of Booker T. Washington stressed self-reliance as well as basic academic skills. After her mother's death when Zora was nine she felt her childhood was over; at 14 she left home and began life on her own, working, traveling, studying and writing.
In 1925 Hurston arrived in New York, developing contacts with Black writers of the Harlem Renaissance and publishing essays and…read more
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Henriette Goldschmidt
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Alice Neel
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Marie Fillunger
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Mary Ward
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Sophia Charlotte Queen of Prussia
born on October 30, 1668 in Iburg near Osnabrück
died on February 1, 1705 in Hannover
300th anniversary of her death on February 1, 2005
She was left with little time to pursue her diverse interests. Sophia Charlotte died of pneumonia in Hannover on February 1, 1705 at the age of only 36. She had originally planned to celebrate Carnival with her family there. She calmly explained to the priest who had been called that she did not need him—she was prepared for death.
Sophia's mother, Sophia of the Palatinate and later Electress of Hannover, had great things planned for her only girl. A beautiful, well-educated daughter was a trump on the European marriage market. In line with the spirit of high baroque ideals, the little princess was taught bienséance (propriety), contenance (manners) and gravité (dignity), one spoke only French with her, and she received the same education as her three older brothers.
The effort was worthwhile: Frederick III, later to become the first "King in Prussia" and son of Frederick William, the Great Elector, and Louise Henrietta of Orange, was chosen to marry Sophia Charlotte. Just…read more
